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Published Every Thursday Since September 3, 1890 (908) 232-4407 USPS 680020 Thursday, June 24, 2010 OUR 120th YEAR – ISSUE NO. 25-2010 Periodical – Postage Paid at Rahway, N.J. www.goleader.com [email protected] SIXTY CENTS Westfield Council Passes Budget, Debates Attorneys Compensation By LAUREN S. BARR the “safety of children put first.” that need to be funded. Specially Written for The Westfield Leader Mr. Baker was critical of the council Mr. Baker stood up in the audience WESTFIELD — At Tuesday night’s to vote on a budget without knowing and interrupted Councilman Foerst to Westfield Town Council meeting, the where the cuts would be made. He also say that Mayor Andrew Skibitsky had council approved the town’s $39.1- criticized the council for holding bud- asked for “crazy ideas.” Despite being million municipal budget in a 7-1 vote, get meetings in committee, where they told he was out of order by Mayor with Democratic Councilman David are “intentionally closed to the public,” Skibitsky, Mr. Baker insisted that he be Haas casting the lone “no” vote. The and for allowing hourly legal fees to be allowed to “interrupt [Councilman 2010 municipal budget represents an raised by 50 percent. Foerst] as much as he interrupts me.” increase of $181 on the average as- Mr. Baker said that the council should Councilman Haas, a member of the sessed home of $185,100. reduce legal fees and raise parking fees council’s finance committee, said, Resident Jim Baker was the only in order to save crossing-guard posi- “There are a lot of good things in this member of the public to comment on tions. While he was speaking, Council- budget,” and he wanted the public to the budget. He questioned whether or man James Foerst told Mr. Baker that know that his “no” vote was not meant not a determination had been made on the budget is “prudent” and that he can to “condemn it all.” what crossing-guard posts would be run for office next year. He explained that he had several cut. During Councilman Foerst’s com- concerns regarding the hiring of part- Councilwoman JoAnn Neylan told ments on the budget, he said the budget time attorneys as employees, without him that a decision had not been reached process was “not easy,” as there was competitive bidding, and providing yet but that cuts would be made with only so much money and many things them with a pension rather than putting them on retainer, as would be done in the private sector. Mr. Haas said the town hired a new public defender who does not participate in the pension program, proving that the town can still get Courtesy of Bill Griffeth SCHOOL’S OUT...Crossing guard Ziggy Kozlowski, pictured at the intersection of Clark Street and Tuttle Parkway in “quality people” without offering this Westfield, is one of the many crossing guards who help kids get to school safely. To view the photos of Ward 1 crossing guards option. taken by Mr. Griffeth, see goleader.com/photos. Mr. Haas also expressed disappoint- ment that the town did not take advantage of the state’s energy audit program when it had the opportunity, which Westfield Historical Society Honors could have led to cost savings. Coun- cilman Haas did praise the budget for having lower operating expenses than the previous year’s. Many, Selects Hall of Fame Inductees Councilwoman Neylan, who also WESTFIELD – The Westfield His- House Building Committee. Marilyn accomplished in their fields as well as serves on the finance committee, said torical Society held its 41st annual din- Shields was honored with The Trust- having made a significant impact on she “stand(s) behind this budget,” add- ner meeting on May 26 at Echo Lake ees’ Award for her revered work as a the town, the state or the nation. ing that she felt Councilman Haas was Country Club and hosted a record landscape architect in many Westfield “The list of inductees suggests that Courtesy of Robert Meiklejohn being “disingenuous” with his “no” crowd. landscapes and gardens. the community has fostered people of CATCHING THE PERFECT GAME...Jeff Torborg was one of five inductees of vote because he introduced the budget The Thomas Glasser Foundation was Ms. Hanson presented Letty Hudak importance and achievement,” said Mr. the Westfield Hall of Fame at the Westfield Historical Society annual dinner last at the May 25 meeting. honored for its leading gift to the Reeve with a Trustee Emerita Award and Hale, chairman of the selection com- month. Pictured, left to right, are: Alma Kehler, Jeff Torborg, Suzie Torborg and Finance Committee Chairman Coun- House project and its important philan- George Gross with a Trustee Emeritus mittee. Members of the Hall of Fame Nancy Priest, president of the Westfield Historical Society. cilman Mark Ciarrocca said he is “proud thropic work in the community. award. will be permanently honored at the of this budget and proud of the pro- LeeHale presented the award to Gerry The Westfield Historical Society Reeve House History and Cultural cess.” Glasser on behalf of The Thomas Selection Committee inducted five in- Center, located at 314 Mountain Av- GW Approves Road Work; He said that the town’s new public Glasser Foundation. dividuals/families into the Westfield enue in Westfield. The Reeve House is defender does participate in the state’s Sherry Cronin presented The Presi- Hall of Fame. This is the second year being rehabilitated and restored as the contribution system, just not the “de- dents’ Award to Karrie Hanson for her that the Historical Society has inducted historical society’s permanent home Private Dumpsters Advised fined benefit” program. He added that commitment to the Westfield Histori- prominent Westfield residents into its and educational center. By RENNIE WOLTERS road-improvement project. the energy audit would have cost the cal Society and for leading the Reeve Hall of Fame. All the nominees are The 2010 inductees of the Westfield Specially Written for The Westfield Leader Council members reiterated that bulk town money to implement the recom- Historical Society Hall of Fame in- GARWOOD — The Garwood Bor- pick-up is cancelled for the rest of the mendations and that the mayor’s “Green cluded: ough Council held a short meeting, year due to cutbacks in the borough Team” is currently working on “long- SPMC Seeks Presence 1. Charles Apgar (1830-1915) – Tuesday, in the presence of eight resi- budget and that the topic of bulk pick- term” energy solutions for the town. Known as the “wireless wizard” for his dents in the council chambers of the up will be revisited next year. Council- Mayor Skibitsky said this was a “dif- pivotal role in saving British and Ameri- municipal building. man Keith Sluka suggested that resi- ficult budget year,” given the loss of At Summer Concert Series can freighters during World War I, he Mayor Dennis McCarthy attended dents of the same block rent a private revenue and state aid. He thanked all of By FRED T. ROSSI volvement, along with a possible fi- assisted the Secret Service in shutting the Arthur L. Johnson High School dumpster to use collectively. No permit the town’s employees for their hard Specially Written for The Westfield Leader nancial contribution, in the upcom- down a German wireless station that graduation ceremony in Clark that is required for a dumpster, but police work, specifically the fire department, SCOTCH PLAINS — The Scotch ing concert series at Alan Augustine was broadcasting tips to German U- evening and, therefore, was not present notification is recommended, said Bor- public works and non-union employ- Plains Management Corp. (SPMC) Village Green, which lost its munici- boats about approaching Allied mer- at the meeting. Council President ough Clerk Christina Ariemma. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 is planning a significant on-site in- pal funding but is being resurrected chant ships. He built and developed Stephen Napolitano stood in for the Summer recreation begins Monday, by private donations. one of the most powerful wireless radio mayor. June 28, and lasts through Friday, Au- The SPMC board, last Thursday, systems in his house on Carleton Road. The council approved a bond ordi- gust 6, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Little RVSA Agrees to Pay $7,590 voted to contribute $1,500 to pay for 2. Sigismund Ivanowski (1874-1944) nance to resurface Center Street from League field. Sign-up is still available, sound systems at the first two shows, – A graduate of the St. Petersburg Acad- North Avenue to South Avenue and to said Councilman Louis Petrozzelli. which are set for Thursdays, July 15 emy and a renowned portrait artist, he resurface Willow Avenue from East Councilman Anthony Sytko sug- To Environmental Company and 22, but will make the donation came to the area with his wife, Helen Street to Oak Street, including drain- gested that council members and coun- By TOM FORTUNATO leased into the atmosphere through a only if plans to have the Westfield Moser, and established a studio in his age, sidewalk, curb and driveway apron cil-meeting attendees support the Green Specially Written for The Westfield Leader smokestack and ignited, producing a Symphony Orchestra (WSO) and a house on Mountain Avenue. It was improvements. The 2010 Road Im- Team and walk to the next borough RAHWAY — The Rahway Valley bright flame visible above the RVSA jazz quartet from the Mason Gross there that he painted portraits of Admi- provement Project will cost the bor- council meeting. Sewerage Authority has come under plant at night. School of the Arts at Rutgers Univer- ral George Melville and Theodore ough $350,000, of which $275,000 is “I think it’d be a nice promotion of fire for the failure of its cogeneration Currently, the RVSA has been sity perform at those first two shows Roosevelt, both of whose paintings are to be provided by a state grant from the exercise and energy,” Councilman facility to reduce its operating costs. named as a defendant in a lawsuit come to fruition. SPMC will also host in the National Portrait Gallery in Wash- New Jersey Department of Transporta- Sytko said. The facility, or CoGen, as it is more filed by Caterpillar and Foley Power a hospitality tent during all of the ington, D.C. tion. The next meeting of the Garwood commonly known, was championed Systems (“CAT/Foley”), which are CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 The board voted to authorize the Borough Council will be held Tuesday, by former executive director Michael seeking to repossess the diesel backup issuance of bonds in the amount of July 27. The regularly scheduled meet- Brinker. It is designed to take the generators. This lawsuit was men- $75,000 to finance the remainder of the ing for July 13 has been cancelled. methane gas captured by the facility’s tioned in Thursday’s meeting sylla- sludge digesters and use it to power bus, to be discussed in further detail generators to reduce the plant’s en- in executive session. ergy consumption and overall oper- Also discussed at the meeting were ating costs. several resolutions to be passed. The In addition to using the recycled RVSA agreed to pay $7,590 to Great methane gas for power, the heat from Lakes Environmental Center of the generators is transferred to a ma- Traverse City, Mich. for professional chine to be used to dry sludge. The services. The $7,590 paid by the dried sludge is easier to transport and RVSA was its individual share of the is sold off to be used for agricultural $95,000 owed to the Great Lakes or landscaping purposes. Environmental Center by the New According to RVSA officials, the Jersey Harbor Dischargers Group, of CoGen facility’s generators have not which the RVSA is a member. been operational for some time. Earlier RVSA also amended its contract this year, methane gas that had slipped with engineering and architecture through the generators without being firm Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor fully combusted built up in the exhaust for trunk sewer rehabilitation from smokestack over time, eventually caus- $295,203 to $302,203. The RVSA Horace Corbin for The Westfield Leader ing an explosion. The generators have also agreed to increase sewer con- STREET MODS...Michael Ebert, left, of Cranford and Rich Bodmer of Westfield not been used since, and RVSA in- nection fees for applicants seeking to race their BMW 14 last Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville. See stalled two Caterpillar diesel backup make a new connection to its trunk story on page 5. generators to make up for this. sewer or modify an existing connec- PAGE INDEX Police Blotter...6 The methane produced by the dition. Lastly, the RVSA approved an Courtesy of Mitch Aronson Regional ...... 2-3 Obituary ...... 16 Real Estate .... 9-15 FOND FAREWELL...Westfield Booster President Frank Fusaro, left, congratu- gesters cannot be utilized as a power application by the City of Rahway to Editorial ...... 4-5 Education ...... 17 Classifieds .... 15 lates retiring Westfield High SchoolAthletic Director Ed Tranchina for his many source as long as the CoGen facility build a sewer connection for an el- Community ... 6-7, 16 Sports ...... 9-14 A&E ...... 17-18 years of dedicated service at the Westfield Booster WHS Coaches Golf Outing. is inactive, so the excess gas is re- ementary school.

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Publication SPMC Seeks Presence CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 shows, which are sponsored by the band because of the expectation that township’s cultural arts committee and those two shows will draw the big- are also set for July 29 and August 12. gest crowds to the downtown busi- A major sticking point at last week’s ness district. board meeting was the monetary do- Both Mayor Malool and fellow nation and how it will be used. Mayor board member Dominick Verdic, who Nancy Malool, a member of the also chairs the Downtown Westfield SPMC board, said she was concerned Corporation, said it was important to about how much benefit would be urge as many businesses as possible realized by businesses that are not to stay open until a later hour on the situated in the immediate downtown, nights of the concerts. Mr. Verdic Greg Ryan for The Westfied Leader a concern seconded by board mem- said discount coupons and other pro- HELPING MOTORIST…The Westfield Rescue Squad and EMTs assist a ber Steve Goldberg. Any SPMC ef- motional literature and brochures motorist injured in a 11 a.m. traffic accident on Friday at the intersection of Tuttle fort “needs to benefit all” of its mem- from businesses should be made avail- Parkway and South Avenue. The roadway was closed until the accident investi- bers, he said. The board decided to tie able at the hospitality tent. gation was completed. the $1,500 contribution to perfor- “It’s the only way to get foot traf- NJ Transit workers perform track maintenance at the Westfield Train Station. mances by the WSO and the Rutgers fic” into the business district, he said. Those businesses not located in the Parents Urge SP-F BOE Not heart of the downtown, such as on Route 22, Terrill Road and East Sec- To Terminate Resolve Contract ond Street, will be urged to take part By JESSICA E. JASKULA services it has to fill the gap. “It won’t via promotional literature, discount Specially Written for The Westfield Leader coupons and actually having person- be the same as Resolve, but these are nel present during the concerts. SCOTCH PLAINS — Several mem- services that go above and beyond what The board also decided to forgo bers of the public urged the Scotch we are mandated to provide,” she said. publishing a full-blown magazine this Plains-Fanwood Board of Education Board member Don Parisi said the summer that would have included a on Thursday to reconsider the recent board would continue to look into cre- directory of all SPMC member busi- decision to terminate its contract with ative revenue sources and suggested nesses and would have been mailed Resolve Community Counseling Cen- that one possible idea for the district to to all township residents. Instead, part ter of Scotch Plains. receive extra funds could be if commu- of the funds earmarked for that will The district has chosen to termi- nity members donated to the Educa- be used to print a smaller-scale direc- nate its $70,000-per-year contract tional Enrichment Foundation, since tory of businesses and, possibly, a with Resolve, eliminating its pro- the foundation is able to make dona- map of those businesses that will be grams at the district’s elementary tions for things that are non-core cur- available on the four nights of the schools. Resolve Community Coun- riculum areas. concerts. seling Center Board of Directors In other business, board members The board also discussed briefly President Judith Dillon said Resolve’s approved Superintendent Hayes’ rec- the possibility of sponsoring a fifth staff and the parents were unaware ommendations for personnel, which show composed of local bands will- that its programs were going to be a included job descriptions for an assis- ing to perform free of charge, al- part of the district’s budgetary reduc- tant superintendent of curriculum, in- though no firm decision was made. tions. struction and technology and an assis- Board members also discussed, with- She said it can be disruptive for the tant principal of athletics. out resolution, the possibility of pur- entire classroom, while the teacher is The SP-F BOE will meet tonight, chasing a sound system that could be helping one child cope, and believes Thursday, June 24, for a regular public used for events such as the concerts that other students would suffer. meeting. and the Memorial Day ceremonies. “I think it’s a really sad situation,” The costs of purchasing versus rent- Resolve counselor Christine Mahoney ing such a system on an as-needed said. “I sit with those children every day, and they have big problems. Just Hall of Fame basis was a favorable factor, but Mr. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Verdic was skeptical, asking who because they are small does not mean would operate a complex sound sys- they are insignificant. There has to be 3. Jeff Torborg (1941- ) – An All- tem and who would be liable if an another way to raise $70,000.” State catcher at Westfield High School owned system were damaged. “None of these cuts have been easy,” and an All American at Rutgers, he In other news, all businesses in the Superintendent of Schools Margaret spent 10 years in major league baseball district will soon receive a mailing Hayes said. “The problem now is that with the Dodgers and the Angels, where from SPMC to verify their names, we have nowhere else to cut. We just he caught no-hitters for Sandy Koufax, addresses, business category and don’t have the financial resources. The Bill Singer and Nolan Ryan. Mr. other pertinent information to update alternative would be to increase class Torborg went on to serve as a major- SPMC’s database and so that the in- sizes.” league manager for the Indians, White formation can be included in the forth- Superintendent Hayes said the dis- Sox, Mets, Expos and Marlins. coming directory. trict would rely on the other counseling 4. The Fairbairns – Robert M. Fairbairn (1839- 1891) lived in Westfield when the population was 800 and all the roads were dirt. As chairman WF Council of the township committee, he set about CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 financing and improving township ees, who accepted a zero-percent pay roads with crushed stone and gravel. increase for 2010. His son, Robert A. Fairbairn (1866- The council will next meet on Tues- 1951), was active in many Westfield day, July 20, at 8 p.m. for both a public and New York City business and civic goleader.com/subscribe and conference session. organizations, but was best known as a sportsman. In 1900, he built and owned the Fair Acres Drivers Club, a half-mile harness racing track. His greatest tri- umph was as the breeder of the 1940 Kentucky Derby winner Gallahadion and the 1945 winner, Hoop Jr. 5. William Reeve (1872-1963): One of the founders of the Westfield YMCA, Mr. Reeve was responsible for the World War I monument at the town center. Perhaps his most enduring contributions were the donation of the 11 acres that became Mindowaskin Park and later the donation of his family home, which is now the Reeve House History and Cultural Center. For more information about the Westfield Historical Society or to become a member, interested persons are asked to call (908) 645-1794, e-mail the society at [email protected] or visit westfieldhistoricalsociety.org. Single Size: 10 Weeks $275 email PDF Ad file to: Double Size: 10 Weeks $475 Goods & Services You Need [email protected]

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USPS 485200 Thursday, June 24, 2010 Published Every Thursday Since 1959 (908) 232-4407 SIXTY CENTS OUR 51st YEAR – ISSUE NO. 25-2010 Periodical – Postage Paid at Rahway, N.J. www.timesnj.com [email protected] Summer Concerts Will Take Place Thanks to Private Donations By FRED T. ROSSI Financial donations of $1,000 each Bratti praised the efforts of his col- Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times were received from Investor Savings leagues and the businesses and vol- SCOTCH PLAINS — Despite the Bank and PNC Bank, while unteers, saying, “We’re going to do it municipal government’s decision not Beckerman Insurance contributed this way from now on” because it is to fund it, the township’s summer $500. It also is possible that the Scotch “fiscally responsible.” concert series will be held, although Plains Management Corp., the man- Shows are scheduled for July 15, on an abbreviated schedule. At last agement entity for the township’s 22 and 29 and August 12. The cul- week’s township council meeting, special improvement district, may tural arts committee is considering Councilman Kevin Glover said cor- contribute money toward the shows the Westfield Symphony Orchestra porate sponsorships and volunteer (see related article). and a jazz quartet from the Mason efforts had resulted in a privately- Councilwoman Mary DePaola, the Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers financed revival of the shows, which council’s liaison to the cultural arts University to headline the first two have been held for nearly two de- committee that sponsors the concerts, shows. cades on Thursday evenings in July said last week she felt it was impor- In other business, the first pay- and August in the Alan Augustine tant to keep the concerts running be- ments of this year’s sewer bills were Village Green on Park Avenue next to cause “once it dies, it’s hard to bring due June 1, and Chief Financial Of- the municipal building. back.” Deputy Mayor Dominick ficer Lori Majeski reported that about one-fourth of sewer bills, or about 1,860, were delinquent. Council members were surprised at the high level of non-payers, which translates to about $300,000 in payments due. Ms. Majeski had no explanation other than to surmise that “maybe they just forgot to pay.” The second sewer payment is due October 1. The council is expected to meet next month with Rahway Valley Sew- Tom Fortunato for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times ON THE RIGHT TRACK...NJ Transit has been performing maintenance on the tracks of the Raritan Valley Line over the erage Authority (RVSA) Commis- last several days. Work at the Fanwood Train Station is shown above. sioner Joan Papen about recent news reports concerning possible problems surrounding a $30-million power plant being built in Rahway. At last Parents Ask BOE to Reconsider week’s meeting, Ramapo Way resident Albert Muller asked the council about the facility, noting that a news Terminating Contract With Resolve article earlier this month had termed it a “$30-million boondoggle.” Mrs. By JESSICA E. JASKULA fer. Brad Siegel and SPFHS students Papen spoke briefly last week to say Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times “I think it’s a really sad situation,” Shannon Reimers and Maxim Jessica E. Jaskula for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times that the article was not entirely accu- SCOTCH PLAINS — Several Resolve counselor Christine Kachalov gave a presentation on ser- MANY THANKS...Last Thursday, the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Educa- rate and that most of the facility, members of the public urged the Scotch Mahoney said. “I sit with those chil- vice learning, detailing their own tion recognized the PTA presidents for the 2009-2010 school year, which included except for the cogeneration portion, Plains-Fanwood Board of Education dren every day and they have big experience organizing and actualiz- PTA Council President Jeanne Cleary and the PTA presidents from each school is operational. on Thursday to reconsider the recent problems. Just because they are small ing a traveling Abraham Lincoln ex- in the district. Mrs. Papen, who will meet with the decision to terminate its contract with does not mean they are insignificant. hibit at the Scotch Plains Public Li- council in July, also cautioned that the Resolve Community Counseling Cen- There has to be another way to raise brary called “Abraham Lincoln: A township faces a $150,000 gap in its ter of Scotch Plains. $70,000.” Man for His Time, A Man for All SPMC Seeks Presence 2011 budget because Scotch Plains The district has chosen to termi- “None of these cuts have been Times.” SPFHS student volunteers was refunded that amount this year by nate its $70,000-per-year contract easy,” Superintendent of Schools researched and organized the event, At Summer Concert Series RVSA because of a surplus that she with Resolve, eliminating its pro- Margaret Hayes said. “The problem giving tours to the public and younger said “won’t be there next year.” grams at the district’s elementary now is that we have nowhere else to SP-F students. By FRED T. ROSSI A major sticking point at last week’s The council will discuss further schools. Resolve Community Coun- cut. We just don’t have the financial The SP-F community benefited Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times board meeting was the monetary do- next month a proposal to help clear seling Center Board of Directors resources. The alternative would be from the experience, but Maxim said SCOTCH PLAINS — The Scotch nation and how it will be used. Mayor so-called open permits, which result President Judith Dillon said Resolve’s to increase class sizes.” that student volunteers learned “just Plains Management Corp. (SPMC), Nancy Malool, a member of the when a homeowner fails to secure a staff and the parents were unaware Superintendent Hayes said the dis- as much.” the management entity for the busi- SPMC board, said she was concerned final inspection for construction, that its programs were going to be a trict would rely on the other counsel- Shannon added that it was a big ness district’s special improvement about how much benefit would be plumbing or electrical work that was part of the district’s budgetary reducing services it has to fill the gap. “It “civic experience” for the volunteers, authority, is planning a significant realized by businesses that are not done via a township-issued permit. tions. She said it can be disruptive for won’t be the same as Resolve, but “as “20 students had to be experts on on-site involvement, along with a pos- situated in the immediate downtown, Construction Officer Bob LaCosta the entire classroom while the teacher these [Resolve] are services that go Lincoln.” sible financial contribution, in the a concern seconded by board mem- said one way to remove these open is helping one child cope, and be- above and beyond what we are man- Following that service learning upcoming concert series at Alan Au- ber Steve Goldberg. Any SPMC ef- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 lieves that other students would suf- dated to provide,” she said. presentation, a Powerpoint presenta- gustine Village Green, which lost its fort “needs to benefit all” of its mem- Board member Don Parisi said the tion was shown featuring the princi- municipal funding but is being resur- bers, he said. The board decided to tie board would continue to look into pals from each of the district’s schools rected by private donations. the $1,500 contribution to perfor- RVSA Agrees to Pay $7,590 creative revenue sources and sug- detailing their schools’ individual Ser- The SPMC board last Thursday mances by the WSO and the Rutgers gested that one possible idea for the vice Learning Plan (part of the voted to contribute $1,500 to pay for band because of the expectation that To Environmental Company district to receive extra funds could district’s strategic planning goals). sound systems at the first two shows, those two shows will draw the big- be if community members donated to The high school will implement a which are set for Thursdays, July 15 gest crowds to the downtown busi- By TOM FORTUNATO is inactive, so the excess gas is re- the Educational Enrichment Founda- recycling program, middle school and 22, but will make the donation ness district. Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times leased into the atmosphere through a tion, since the foundation is able to students will plan projects designed only if plans to have the Westfield Both Mayor Malool and fellow RAHWAY — The Rahway Valley smokestack and ignited, producing a make donations for things that are to address civic responsibility (in- Symphony Orchestra (WSO) and a board member Dominick Verdic said Sewerage Authority (RVSA) has bright flame visible above the RVSA non-core curriculum areas. cluding detailing who will benefit jazz quartet from the Mason Gross it was important to urge as many come under fire for the failure of its plant at night. Additionally on Thursday, Scotch from the project and developing a School of the Arts at Rutgers Univer- businesses as possible to stay open cogeneration facility to reduce its Currently, the RVSA has been Plains-Fanwood High School plan of implementation), Brunner sity perform at those first two shows until a later hour on the nights of the operating costs. named as a defendant in a lawsuit (SPFHS) Social Studies Supervisor CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 come to fruition. SPMC will also concerts. Mr. Verdic said discount The facility, or CoGen, as it is filed by Caterpillar and Foley Power host a hospitality tent during all of coupons and other promotional lit- more commonly known, was cham- Systems (“CAT/Foley”), which are the shows, which are sponsored by erature and brochures from businesses pioned by former executive director seeking to repossess the diesel backup the township’s cultural arts commit- should be made available at the hos- Michael Brinker. It is designed to generators. This lawsuit was men- tee and are also set for July 29 and pitality tent. take the methane gas captured by the tioned in Thursday’s meeting sylla- August 12. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 facility’s sludge digesters and use it bus, to be discussed in further detail to power generators to reduce the in executive session. plant’s energy consumption and Also discussed at the meeting were overall operating costs. In addition several resolutions to be passed. The to using the recycled methane gas RVSA agreed to pay $7,590 to Great for power, the heat from the genera- Lakes Environmental Center of tors is transferred to a machine to be Traverse City, Mich. for professional used to dry sludge. The dried sludge services. The $7,590 paid by the is easier to transport, and is sold off RVSA was its individual share of the to be used for agricultural or land- $95,000 owed to the Great Lakes scaping purposes. Environmental Center by the New According to RVSA officials, the Jersey Harbor Dischargers Group, of CoGen facility’s generators have not which the RVSA is a member. been operational for some time. Ear- RVSA also amended its contract lier this year, methane gas that had with engineering and architecture slipped through the generators with- firm Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor out being fully combusted built up in for trunk sewer rehabilitation from the exhaust smokestack over time, $295,203 to $302,203. The RVSA eventually causing an explosion. The also agreed to increase sewer con- Tom Fortunato for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times generators have not been used since, nection fees for applicants seeking to COGEN CONCERN...The Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority plant above, and RVSA installed two Caterpillar make a new connection to its trunk which serves much of the area, has been having technical and economic problems diesel backup generators to make up sewer or modify an existing connec- with its new power cogeneration facility. for this. tion. 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Publication Scotch Plains-Fanwood BOE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 School will work to remember for- participate in a “Help at Home, Help gotten members of the community Others in Need” project in which by creating placemats that will be they will collect money (under $1) delivered by “Meals on Wheels.” from doing chores at home which In addition, Coles School’ fourth will be donated to relief efforts for graders will assist first graders learn specific local or global needs. the craft of revising and editing their During the committee reports por- writing. Evergreen School will focus tion of the meeting, the community on the importance of literacy through- relations and finance committees re- out the community and globally by ported that they have nominated past participating in a “Reading Buddies” board member Jane Costello as vol- project. McGinn School students will unteer coordinator for the district’s work on a “Read to Feed” project to fundraising efforts. The position came build awareness for world hunger by about as part of the district’s strategic Courtesy of Mitch Aronson donating its funds to the Heifer Inter- planning process and would consist FOND FAREWELL...Westfield Booster President Frank Fusaro, left, congratu- national Organization which would of Ms. Costello creating a plan for Horace Corbin for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times lates retiring Westfield High School Athletic Director Ed Tranchina for his many purchase animals to give to those in additional revenue in the district so STREET MODS...Michael Ebert, left, of Cranford and Rich Bodmer of Westfield years of dedicated service at the Westfield Booster WHS Coaches Golf Outing. need while School One students will that it can, ultimately, be incorpo- race their BMW 14 last Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville. See rated into the budget as revenue in the story on page 5. third year of the strategic plan in the 2011-2012 school year. Garwood Approves Road Work; Additionally, board members approved Superintendent Hayes’ rec- Private Dumpsters Suggested ommendations for personnel, which included job descriptions for an as- By RENNIE WOLTERS gust 6, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Little sistant superintendent of curriculum, Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times League field. Sign-up is still available, instruction and technology and an GARWOOD — The borough coun- said Councilman Louis Petrozzelli. assistant principal of athletics. cil held a short meeting Tuesday in Councilman Anthony Sytko sug- Also on Thursday, the BOE recog- the presence of eight residents in gested that council members and nized the PTA Presidents for the 2009- council chambers of the municipal council meeting attendees support 2010 school year, which included building. the Green Team and walk to the next PTA Council President Jeanne Cleary Mayor Dennis McCarthy attended borough council meeting. and the PTA Presidents from each the Arthur L. Johnson High School “I think it’d be a nice promotion of school in the district. graduation ceremony in Clark that exercise and energy,” Councilman “We want to publicly thank you for evening, and therefore was not Sytko said. everything that you do,” said board present at the meeting. Council Presi- The next meeting of the Garwood president Trip Whitehouse, adding dent Stephen Napolitano stood in Council will be held Tuesday, July that, “We [SP-F] would not be the for the mayor. 27. The regularly scheduled meeting district we are” without their efforts. The council approved a bond ordi- for July 13 has been cancelled. “You folks work tirelessly.” nance to resurface Center Street from The SP-F BOE will meet tonight, North Avenue to South Avenue, and Thursday, June 24 for a regular pub- to resurface Willow Avenue from East WF Council Debates lic meeting. Street to Oak Street, including drain- Attys. Compensation age, sidewalk, curb and driveway By LAUREN S. BARR apron improvements. The 2010 Road Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times SPMC Improvement Project will cost the WESTFIELD — At Tuesday night’s borough $350,000, of which Westfield Town Council meeting, the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 $275,000 is to be provided by a state council approved the town’s $39.1-mil- “It’s the only way to get foot traf- grant from the New Jersey Depart- lion municipal budget in a 7-1 vote with fic” into the business district, he said. ment of Transportation. Councilman David Haas casting the lone Those businesses not located in the The board voted to authorize the “no” vote. The 2010 municipal budget heart of the downtown, such as on issuance of bonds in the amount of represents an increase of $181 on the Route 22, Terrill Road and East Sec- $75,000 to finance the remainder of average assessed home. Resident Jim Baker questioned whether ond Street, will be urged to take part the road improvement project. or not a determination had been made on via promotional literature, discount Council members reiterated that what crossing guard posts would be cut. coupons and actually having person- bulk pick-up is cancelled for the rest He was critical of the council to vote on a nel present during the concerts. of the year due to cutbacks in the budget without knowing where the cuts The board also decided to forgo borough budget, and that the topic would be made. He criticized the council publishing a full-blown magazine this of bulk pick-up will be revisited for holding budget meetings in commit- summer that would have included a next year. Councilman Keith Sluka tee where they are “intentionally closed directory of all SPMC member busi- suggested that residents of the same to the public” and for allowing hourly nesses and would have been mailed block rent a private dumpster to use legal fees to be raised by 50 percent. Mr. Baker said that the council should reduce to all township residents. Instead, collectively. No permit is required legal fees and raise parking fees in order part of the funds earmarked for that for a dumpster, but police notifica- to save crossing guard positions. will be used to print a smaller-scale tion is recommended, said Borough Councilman Haas said, “There are a lot directory of businesses and, possi- Clerk Christina Ariemma. of good things in this budget” and wanted bly, a map of those businesses that Summer recreation begins Monday, the public to know that his “no” vote was will be available on the four nights of June 28, and lasts through Friday, Au- not meant to “condemn it all.” He ex- the concerts. plained that he had several concerns re- The board also discussed briefly garding the hiring of part-time attorneys the possibility of sponsoring a fifth as employees, without competitive bid- show composed of local bands will- Concerts ding, and providing them with a pension. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Mr. Haas said that a new public defender ing to perform free of charge, al- had been hired by the town who does not though no firm decision was made. permits from his department’s files participate in the pension program, prov- Board members also discussed, with- would be during a smoke detector ing that the town can still get “quality out resolution, the possibility of pur- inspection. When such an inspection people” without offering this option. chasing a sound system that could be is requested, if that property is found Councilwoman Neylan said that she, used for events such as the concerts to have an open permit, the home- “stand(s) behind this budget” adding Mr. and the Memorial Day ceremonies. owner would be charged a $50 ad- Haas was being “disingenuous” because The costs of purchasing versus rent- ministrative fee to have the permit he introduced the budget on May 25. Finance Committee Chairman Council- ing such a system on an as-needed cleared. Mr. LaCosta said the town- man Mark Ciarrocca said that he is “proud basis was a favorable factor, but Mr. ship would have received about of this budget and proud of the process.” He Verdic was skeptical, asking who $45,000 in revenue during the past said that the town’s new public defender would operate a complex sound sys- three years had the proposal been in does participate in the state’s contribution tem and who would be liable if an place. system, just not the “defined benefit” pro- owned system were damaged. At its regular meeting last week, gram. He added that the mayor’s “Green In other business, all businesses in the council passed resolutions con- Team” is working on “long term” energy the district will soon receive a mail- gratulating Stephen Allen and Tho- solutions to save money. ing from SPMC to verify their names, mas Seile for achieving the rank of Mayor Skibitsky said that this was a “difficult budget year” given the loss of addresses, business category and Eagle Scout and Alyssa Resnick and revenue and state aid. He thanked the other pertinent information to up- Perry Sandrock on attaining the Girl town’s employees for their hard work, date SPMC’s database and so that the Scout Award. specifically the fire department, public information can be included in the The council’s next meeting is Tues- works and non-union employees who forthcoming directory. day, July 6. accepted a zero pay increase for 2010. 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Get Back On Track Continue to the next page ==> Page 2 Thursday, June 24, 2010 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Scutari Opposes Moving Peyton's Affordable-Housing Bill Pros. Offices to State Budget Peek at the Week Now Before Assembly Panel By PAUL J. PEYTON counties have little control over the TRENTON – Governor Chris within the region, and half would be Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times In Politics operations of the prosecutors, who The Leader/Times Christie has requested swift action set aside for median income families, TRENTON – The head of a state are appointed to five-year terms by By Paul Peyton of by the Assembly Local Government who make between 50 and 80 percent committee assigned to review legis- the governor and are independent of Polls Mixed on First Five Months lion budget plan. The final budget Committee on legislation that would of the median gross household in- lation that would move the state’s 21 county governing bodies. Of Christie Administration calls for leaving a surplus of over $300 abolish the state Council on Afford- come within the region, according to county prosecutor offices to the state The legislation is supported by Two job-approval polls for the first million. The Governor and Legislature able Housing (COAH) and replace it the Senate Majority Office. budget, said he does not believe the Senate President Stephen Sweeney five months of the Christie adminis- have identified $74 million in addi- with a new system. This follows the Under the bill, municipalities bill would benefit taxpayers. The pro- (LD-3, West Deptford) as well as tration have revealed mixed reviews tional cost savings that will be used to Senate’s 28-3 vote passing the legis- would be able to reserve half of the posal would put the prosecutors of- Union County Manager George – one over 50 percent and one below help restore funding to some programs. lation on June 10. low- and moderate-income units for fices under the direct control of the Devanney and Essex County Execu- that mark. Senate Panel Considers Bill According to The Record of Bergen families in which one member works state’s attorney general. tive Joseph DiVincenzo. The Senate A Rasmussen Reports telephone To Charge for Summer School County, the Christie administration or resides in the municipality. Mu- Last week, The Westfield Leader version is sponsored by Essex County survey of “likely New Jersey voters” The State Senate Education Com- wants to see the legislation passed by nicipalities would be permitted to reported that Union County Prosecu- Democrats, Senator Richard Codey shows that 51 percent approve of mittee on Monday considered a bill June 30 – the deadline for both the satisfy their affordable-housing re- tor Ted Romankow is opposed to the and Assemblyman John McKeon how Governor Christie is doing his sponsored by state Senator Nicholas state budget and the date when a 2.5- quirements through alternate means, proposal over concerns he would lose (both LD-27, West Orange). job, while 45 percent disapprove. Sacco (LD-32, North Bergen) that percent year-long moratorium on fees including off-site construction or re- control of initiatives he has started on Forty-six percent of voters gave the would require parents to pay for their on commercial builders ends. He has habilitation of existing units, a devel- areas such as gang violence and drug- Lesniak Pushes governor good or excellent marks for children to attend summer school, the requested speedy approval of the bill opment fee of 2.5 percent of the equal- related crimes. his handling of the state’s budget crisis. Star-Ledger has reported. The bill ex- by the Assembly Local Government ized, assessed value of the project to The proposal to move prosecutor Sports Betting in N.J. Thirty-six percent of respondents rate empts students whose families earn Committee, a panel chaired by As- the municipality’s affordable-hous- offices out of county payrolls would TRENTON – Senator Raymond his performance in this area as poor. below $22,050 – the federal poverty semblyman Jerry Green (LD-22, ing trust fund, or through purchase or save $400 million for counties, ac- Lesniak (LD-20, Elizabeth), the chief Meanwhile, 44 percent of 1,461 line for a family of four. Plainfield). subsidization of units that are subse- cording to a story in The Star-Ledger. advocate in the State Legislature for New Jersey voters surveyed in a Union Raising Dues to Mount Governor Christie said the legisla- quently sold or rented to low- and Union County’s prosecutor office has sports wagering and online betting at Quinnipiac University poll approve Ad Campaign Against Christie tion “goes a long way toward funda- moderate-income families. an annual budget of $20 million. New Jersey’s gaming establishments, of the job Governor Christie has done The Communications Workers of mentally reforming the affordable- Asm. Green said the Legislature Senator Nicholas Scutari (LD-22, said he was disappointed that the since taking office January, while 43 America, the state’s largest workers housing system which New Jerseyans will “by month’s end pass legislation Linden), a former chairman of the New Jersey Casino Association last percent disapprove. Forty-four per- union, with 40,000 state workers, is have long demanded and that I have extending the moratorium on the 2.5 Union County Freeholder Board, said week came out in opposition to his cent referred to him as a leader, with raising its membership dues from promised to deliver.” [percent] development fee,” to pro- he opposes the legislation, as he does efforts. 43 percent saying he is a bully. one-tenth to 1.25 percent of workers’ “We will continue to work with tect businesses struggling through the not see where savings would be gen- “This is a case of casino owners Governor, Legislature Reach salaries in an effort to raise $2 million members of both parties in the Legis- recession. erated for taxpayers or how the state putting the sports betting monopoly Agreement on State Budget for an anti-Governor Chris Christie lature to bring the COAH nightmare Senator Ray Lesniak (LD-20, would pay for the prosecutor offices. they enjoy in Las Vegas ahead of New The State Legislature has reached advertising campaign aimed at stop- to an end and replace a broken system Union), one of the bill’s sponsors, The legislation would phase in the Jersey’s economic well-being and a bipartisan consensus in support of ping the governor’s proposed state with a common-sense, predictable said, “New Jersey is not living up to takeover over nine years. competitiveness, pure and simple,” Governor Chris Christie’s $29.4-bil- worker layoffs. and achievable process,” Governor its affordable-housing responsibility. “Initially, I am against it,” he said said Mr. Lesniak (LD-20, Elizabeth), Christie said. COAH has been an abject failure, when reached for comment last Thurs- chairman of the Senate Economic Asm. Green said he would not rush and as a result, municipal officials day by phone. “I think the [current] Growth Committee. “If Atlantic City Morin Re-elected As County the bill through his committee. “I have been saddled with unattainable, system works pretty good as it is.” is going to remain economically vi- don’t want to be back here next year unrealistic mandates for housing, and The senator, a former chairman of able and a revenue generator for the debating yet another affordable-hous- little affordable housing has been the Union County Board of Chosen southern part of our state, it has to GOP Chair for Fourth Time ing bill. I don’t want an endless court built. This bill creates a fairer stan- Freeholders, said the legislation is offer new gaming products, includ- By PAUL J. PEYTON nor Chris Christie’s proposal for a fight. I want a system that works, and dard and will result in more housing different from that of moving the ing legalized sports wagering and Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times 2.5-percent cap on property tax in- if that means taking time to do it with less bureaucracy.” state Superior Court judges to the online betting. The fact that New COUNTY — Union County Re- creases. right, then that’s what we’re going to The legislation, however, has met state budget, which was done in the Jersey casino owners are standing in publican Committee Chairman Phil “People [in Union County] are go- do,” Asm. Green said. with strong opposition from the New mid-1990s when Christine Whitman, the way of Atlantic City’s economic Morin was re-elected last week to a ing to be shocked when they see how “This is, to say the very least, an Jersey Sierra Club. a Republican, was governor. recovery has more to do with the fourth, two-year term. Mr. Morin ran much money the 2.5-percent [cap] extremely complicated issue that is “This legislation targets rural and Sen. Scutari said he would expect bottom line in Nevada than it does unopposed. would have saved them and reduced not easily resolved,” Asm. Green said. environmentally sensitive areas while counties to support the plan, as it with concern for the Garden State Mr. Morin noted that the GOP has the property taxes they pay,” said Mr. “The Assembly Housing and Local leaving out growing communities that would reduce their bottom line. But, and its residents.” the majority in 11 of the county’s 21 Morin, noting that the GOP is in the Government Committee is not going should be building affordable hous- as part of statewide plan, he does not Mr. Lesniak’s has sponsored SCR- municipalities, including the mayor’s process of calculating how this plan to rush through legislation just to do ing. The bill gets rid of COAH and see how moving the offices would 49, which would pose a ballot ques- office in 10 of those towns, with the would impact county government something different. We are commit- gives all the power to developers to benefit the state. tion to voters to amend the State exception of Summit, where Demo- taxes. ted to blowing up COAH. We will rid pave over rural and environmentally “I don’t see how it could save [tax- Constitution to allow for sports wa- crats hold the mayor’s office. He said he believes Governor the state of the bureaucratic tangle it sensitive parts of New Jersey,” said payers] any money,” the senator added. gering at casinos in Atlantic City and Mr. Morin said the party hopes to Christie’s leadership on issues such has created and implement a new law Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey “[However], I am open-minded to talk racetracks around the state. gain support from the Democrats for as the 2.5-percent cap and other is- that will ensure housing is truly af- Sierra Club. “The Sierra Club finds about it (the legislation).” Change ticket, which lost a bruising sues “has put us an excellent position fordable across our state. But we will this bill outrageous. It includes no Mr. Scutari, when asked, said there Mayor Malool to Hold battle in the race for county free- to win freeholder seats” in 2010. do this right, with input from every- environmental criteria, and targets has not been any push to move the holder seats and the offices of sheriff “I think in Union County it is abso- one.” rural and environmentally sensitive legislation (S-835, A-2350) in the ‘Coffee With Mayor’ and county clerk in the Democratic lutely vital to have that external sup- According to the Senate Majority towns while exempting growing, sub- Senate Judiciary Committee, which SCOTCH PLAINS — Mayor Party Primary. port,” Mr. Morin said. Office, the legislation would require urban towns. he chairs. Nancy Malool will her next “Coffee “When it comes to pocketbook is- At the local level, Mr. Morin is that 10 percent of all residential units “Housing should be located where Sen. Scutari said it would make With the Mayor” this Saturday, June sues, I feel we (County GOP and looking for the GOP to win council built in a development project of five the jobs are, helping to prevent sprawl more sense to move the county jails 26 at the Farmers Market at 430 Park Democrats for Change) have a lot majorities in Fanwood and Garwood, or more units be reserved for low- and pollution while providing people to the state’s correctional system. Avenue. The mayor will be available more similarities than differences,” as well as the Garwood’s mayor’s and moderate-income families, and 5 with economic opportunities. Afford- Those who support the bill say from 9 a.m. until noon. Mr. Morin said. office. He pointed to the GOP win- percent of residential development able housing should not be used to He said the county GOP ticket, of ning majority in Springfield last year projects with less than five units be promote development in rural and Summit Councilwoman Ellen for the first time in 16 years. reserved. 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We can’t just keep decade as senior pastor of the First from the University of Florida in and the borough council to support raising taxes because people will have Baptist Church of Westfield, the Gainesville; a Master of Divinity – a Governor Chris Christie’s proposed no choice but to leave Garwood.” Reverend Dr. Darla Dee Turlington three-year professional degree – from constitutional amendment to cap According to Gov. Christie’s 2.5- will retire at the end of this month, Union Theological Seminary (UTS) property tax increases at 2.5 percent percent cap plan, local governing taking with her years of fond memo- in New York City, and a Doctoral per year, unless voters choose to ex- bodies could ask their voters to ex- ries of the people with whom she degree in Biblical Studies from UTS ceed the cap by referendum. ceed the cap through referenda, said has served and shared lives. and Columbia University. “Since Union County has among the Victor DeFilippo, a GOP council can- Affectionately known as “Dee She told The Leader and The highest property taxes in the nation, didate. Dee,” Reverend Turlington was to be Times the most rewarding aspect of one would think that our current mayor “This referendum option gives the feted at a retirement din- her tenure at First Bap- would rise to the occasion and support public the opportunity to voice their ner last night at The tist has been “having a our hardworking borough residents,” opinion on municipal expenditures Westwood in Garwood. community of like- said Republican mayoral candidate sooner rather than years later when YOUNG GARDENERS…The Town of Westfield is gearing up for the annual Reverend Turlington minded people to share Patricia Quattrocchi. Mrs. Quattrocchi officials are up for reelection,” said “America in Bloom” competition (locally known as “Westfield in Bloom”) as was ordained at First life with, especially is- said the mayor has not pledged his Mr. DeFilippo, a former council mem- Westfield competes for the 2010 “America in Bloom” award. Westfield is among Baptist in 1991 and be- sues and concerns. support to the governor’s tax reform ber. 28 towns nationwide to compete this year. gan her career there that “Houses of worship agenda. (See www.state.nj.us/governor/ “Since 1999, property taxes in same year, first serving provide places of cap/mayors.html.) Garwood have risen an average of as Minister of Christian intergenerational com- “To date, seven Union County 4.7 percent per year. In April of this New Stores Coming to WF; Education and Evange- munity,” she added, par- mayors, including those in Hillside year, when presenting the budget, lism. She held that posi- ticularly in an age when and Linden, have signed on to the the council president boasted of re- Town Gears Up for ‘Bloom’ tion until becoming se- families and friends fre- plan, as have several other Democrat ducing what was to be a 20-point nior pastor in Decem- quently are separated by mayors in New Jersey who have made increase down to 11.8 points, or a WESTFIELD — The Downtown including Red Valentino from Italy, ber of 2000, having distance. “That’s spe- it clear that they understand their $118 tax increase on every home Westfield Corporation (DWC) has Class by Roberto Cavalli, Celyn b. been recommended by cial.” residents’ tax burden.” assessed at $100,000. This increase announced that a number of new from Italy, Scervino Street from Italy, her predecessor, the Rev. Darla Turlington In addition to her du- The Christie plan is modeled on was not acceptable to GOP Council- stores have opened in town. Betty Blue and several others. Reverend Bob Harvey, ties as senior pastor, Rev- one approved by Massachusetts vot- men Anthony Sytko and Timothy Inspire Gifts and Crafts, which re- In addition to the new stores com- to succeed him. erend Turlington has been an active ers and enacted in 1982 when prop- Hak, with each voting no on the cently opened on South Avenue, spe- ing to town, Westfield is gearing up A native of Gainesville, Fla., Rev- member since 1991 of the Westfield/ erty taxes were, like New Jersey’s, borough’s budget. To their credit, cializes in gifts and crafts that inspire for the annual “America in Bloom” erend Turlington has been a resi- Mountainside Ministerium, includ- burdensome on Massachusetts resi- the two Republicans voiced their others. The store was designed to competition, which is known locally dent of Westfield since 2001, having serving two terms as president. dents. The end result of enacting the opposition to the increased burden provide a unique shopping or craft as “Westfield in Bloom.” The DWC ing previously lived in Manhattan The 25-member interfaith organiza- 2.5-percent tax-increase cap dropped the council is putting on the backs of making experience while giving back and Williams Nursery are co-leading and Summit. Her husband, Don, tion is a coalition of local clergy and Massachusetts from third highest the residents,” Mrs. Quattrocchi said. to the people that need it. All profits the effort for Westfield to be consid- also originally from Gainesville, is executive directors of agencies that property tax burden in the nation to All three candidates noted that are donated to charity. The store car- ered for the 2010 “America in Bloom” a retired tax attorney. Her son, Ralph help the community. Of her fellow 33rd place today. Garwood voters supported the Gov- ries candy, novelty items, custom award. Westfield is among 28 towns Donald “Donnie” Turlington, is a Ministerium members, Reverend “I don’t believe that our mayor ernor in the fall election and, accord- beauty scrubs and lotions, jewelry, nationwide to compete this year. 2006 Westfield High School gradu- Turlington said she “values my col- truly recognizes just how upset the ingly, their elected officials should candles, essential oils, custom-made Westfield was the only town in the ate currently studying environmen- leagues immensely.” residents are with this year’s tax in- support his plan to control property soap by the inch, and greeting cards. state to participate in the 2009 and tal science and economics at the First Baptist has formed a Pasto- crease,” said borough council candi- tax increases. Francesco Somarriba manages the 2010 competitions. University of Virginia in ral Search Committee, said Rever- Union County Pools to Open store. Judges will head to Westfield on Charlottesville. end Turlington, “that will work with Westfield Sleep Center and Kids July 12 and 13 to view and critique Speaking last Friday with The the denominational leadership to recently expanded at 125 Elm Street various landscapes, homes and busi- Westfield Leader and The Scotch identify qualified candidates nation- For Summer Swimming with a new 5,000-square-foot show- ness fronts for the annual competi- Plains-Fanwood Times, Reverend ally” to succeed her. She noted this COUNTY — The Union County 6 to 8 p.m. and at Wheeler Pool on room offering mattresses from Sealy tion. Final results will be announced Turlington said she and her husband process should take six to 12 Department of Parks and Commu- Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. and Sterns and Foster, linens, many in October at the national sympo- plan to return to their Florida roots, months. Reverend Turlington stated nity Renewal has announced the open- Admission to these sessions is free. furniture lines and kids’ furniture. sium. In 2009, Westfield received a “within a year or so,” and are eyeing that regular church staff and lay ing of the county’s two public swim- Ulrich Pool is open Monday and Tony Santolucci owns the store. four-bloom rating out of a possible Jacksonville as their new home. The ministers will cover pastoral duties ming pools. The Walter E. Ulrich Wednesday from 1 to 8 p.m.; Tues- Westfield is fast becoming a five-bloom rating and special men- couple then intend to pursue “oppor- over the summer, and a part-time Memorial Pool, located in Rahway day, Thursday and Friday from 1 to 6 boutique mecca as another fashion tion for the Floral Displays category. tunities to do volunteer work and interim minister is expected to take River Park on St. Georges Avenue in p.m. and Saturday, Sunday and holi- retailer joins the growing roster. For local information about explore other ways of using our abili- over in September. Rahway, will be open from June 26 days from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Splash, an upscale European designer Westfield’s involvement, to volun- ties. As she prepares to bid farewell through Labor Day, September 6. The Wheeler Pool is open Monday, clothing boutique, has opened in the teer or to participate by submitting “I did pray long and hard about it, to her longtime spiritual home, John Russell Wheeler Memorial Pool, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 6 heart of the downtown shopping stories and photos of Westfield resi- and I am convinced that God has told Reverend Turlington said most of located in Wheeler Park on West p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday from 1 district at 15 East Broad Street. dences, businesses or outdoor envi- me that it’s time to move on, and that all, she “will miss the people, the Stimson Avenue and Route 1 in Lin- to 8 p.m., and Saturday, Sunday and Owned by a married couple, Ohla ronment, contact Sherry Cronin at God has plans for me and for the wonderful relationships which are den, will be open from June 28 holidays from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Yykhopen and David Wasitowski, the DWC or Mr. Williams at Will- church,” she stated. deepened by sharing life through August 27. Proof of residency is required for who hail from the Ukraine, Splash iams Nursery at She said she does not plan to seek events…births, deaths, illnesses, Group swimming lessons will be county fees for daily admission. Ad- brings a European sensibility to [email protected]. To in- a new clergy position once they relo- marriages, trials, tribulations and held at Ulrich Pool beginning Mon- mission is $4 for county residents 17 Westfield. They offer designer dresses quire about the national program, call cate, but rather hopes to channel her joys…it all comes into the church day, July 5. Applications are available and under and $8 for non-county for special events, evening wear and America in Bloom at (614) 487-1117 energy into “teaching religion, Bible family and we bring faith into dia- at either pool office for all ages, begin- residents. Adults pay $5 and $10, high end designer sportswear or visit americainbloom.org. studies and social action ministries,” logue with life.” ners through adults. Pre-registration respectively, while seniors 62 and is required. Early registration is en- over pay $4 and $8, respectively. couraged as classes are limited and are For more information, visit on a first-come, first-served basis. ucnj.org or call the Ulrich Pool at Open swim sessions for seniors (732) 381-4045 or the Wheeler Pool and for people with disabilities are at (908) 862-0977 for recorded in- held at Ulrich Pool on Mondays from formation.

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Scotch Plains Business & Professional Association • Fanwood Business & Professional Association letter to the editor of June 10 supporting responded to my letter to the council and The others are made up. Are you sharp Periodicals – Postage Paid at Rahway, New Jersey Periodicals – Postage Paid at Rahway, New Jersey my concerns about the noise caused by thanked me for bringing the matter to the enough to discern this deception of dic- landscaping equipment and to update town council’s attention. He also informed me tion? P.O. Box 250 • 251 North Avenue, West P. O. Box 368 residents on my direct exchange with the that he would personally review the town’s If you can guess one correctly – good Westfield, N.J. 07091 Scotch Plains, N.J. 07076 town council. ordinance and is prepared to consider the guess. If you get two – well-read indi- Tele: (908) 232-4407 • E-mail: [email protected] • Web: www.goleader.com • Fax: (908) 232-0473 First, I greatly appreciate Mr. Mancini’s proposals that the times set forth in the vidual. If you get three – word expert. If POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the offices of the newspapers at support but do not believe this issue has ordinance be changed and that penalties you get all four – You must have a lot of any thing to do with the “old” or the for violations be increased. free time! P. O. Box 250, Westfield, New Jersey 07091 “grouchy.” In fact, it is probably the young He further informed me that he has All words and correct definitions Published every Thursday by Watchung Communications, Inc. and good-natured who are most affected asked Jim Gildea, the town administra- come from the board game Diction by the noise, noxious gas and dust, espe- tor, and Councilman Jim Forest, the chair- Deception. Paul Peyton Horace R. Corbin Jeff Gruman cially young children with respiratory man of the Town Council’s Code Review Answers to last week’s arcane words. ASSIGNMENT EDITOR PUBLISHER SALES MANAGER ailments. It is also the young and their and Town Property Committee (CRTPC), 1. Vibex – Discolored spot or blotch of Suzette F. Stalker David B. Corbin Michael L. Bartiromo parents who are most affected by the to add those issues and place them on the the skin due to a subcutaneous effusion of COMMUNITY ASSISTANT PUBLISHER & SPORTS MARKETING PRODUCTION dangerous traffic snarls the trucks and CRTPC’s agenda for consideration. It is blood Michael Pollack Ben Corbin Robert P. Connelly trailers create during school hours. a very good start. 2. Giallolino – Naples yellow pigment EDUCATION & ARTS SERVICES BUSINESS OPERATIONS Consider the following: I invite Mr. Mancini and other 3. Trigo – Wheat NoiseOFF, a national non-profit, re- Westfield residents to both encourage 4. Geniculate – To form joints or bend ports that continuous exposure to loud and support the town council in follow- like a joint SUBSCRIPTION PRICE www.goleader.com/subscribe noises can cause adults and children el- ing through on Mr. Della Fera’s promise. One-year – $28 • Two-year – $52 • Three-year – $76 • One-year college (September to May) – $20 evated stress, hypertension, depression CYSTALGIA Glen Macdonald 1. Painful swelling of the mammary and lost sleep. Westfield According to the National Institute on glands Deafness, some 30-million people in the 2. Pain in the bladder Pedestrians in Crosswalks: United States are exposed to dangerous After Letter, Meade 3. Bunyons noise levels each day, and 10-million 4. Pain and swelling of the lymph nodes Americans have already suffered gradual Owes Mancini Apology RONDACHE hearing loss from such exposure. This is in response to Anna Meade’s 1. A small circular shield carried by We Have Laws; Where is Behavior? It is for these reasons that the Federal recent letter to the editor criticizing Mr. medieval foot soldiers Noise Control Act was passed in 1972 to Mancini’s previous call for noise restric- 2. Any large stage prop in the theater Noise from lawn care has had its annual spring down in this state, this is a serious problem, and this combat growing noise pollution and set tions on landscapers. It is really a shame which depicts the background 3. Moving in a hopping or skipping airing. Cell phone use and “texting” while driving enforcement is important. Using officers in uniform guidelines for combating the uncontrolled she couldn’t address the merits of Mr. growth of noise. And according to Pa- Mancini’s position without not so subtly manner seem to be on all of our minds. Local issues are would probably net a similar amount of tickets. I’ve rade Magazine in its May 30, 2010 issue: accusing him of racism. 4. Envy; resentment important and spark interesting debate. Opinions had people blatantly not yield to a pedestrian in a “The increasing volume of American life... There is nothing in Mr. Mancini’s let- CYNEGETICS 1. Hunting with dogs can be all over the spectrum. This week, we received crosswalk right in front of my marked patrol car! I is leading lawmakers across the country ter to indicate such a position, and Anna to issue tough new restrictions on how Meade owes him a public apology. It is 2. The study of the Brythonic Celtic a note on pedestrians’ rights when entering cross- would like to see it go hand-in-hand with pedestrians much noise residents can make” (May also appalling that so many people in this languages that includes Welsh, Breton walks, drivers’ obligations and the ignoring of the being ticketed for jaywalking. 30,2010). country resort to cries of racism against and Cornish 3. Pertaining to swans or the study of law – more importantly, the growing hazards. 3. This has always been a very perplexing issue to Secondly, I encourage Mr. Mancini anyone they disagree with. and WeCare to join me in addressing the One of the many legacies of the late swans We passed this e-mail around to several of our me. Isn’t it a shame that we need a law in order to get current (rather than past) council mem- ‘60’s/early 70’s is our hyper-sensitivity. 4. Study of diseases or inflammations readers for opinions. The e-mail was: “Just one people to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk? Any- bers and to give them a chance to do the So, so sad. of the throat or windpipe job they were elected to do. I, for one, ANGEKOK question – Did you guys hear that Kenilworth is one who has spent any time in this state knows that Joseph Boscia 1. A fencing master have faith that they will address this mat- Westfield actually using undercover cops to catch drivers not you take your life in your hands anytime you rely on ter promptly and satisfactorily. 2. A chiropractor yielding to pedestrians on the crosswalk? A friend of a driver to yield in the crosswalk. I say let’s make the 3. An Eskimo medicine man 4. An interpreter; translater mine was given a ticket, and the cop told him that it fine $500 and put a picture of shame in the newspa- Mr. Kravetsky’s Evaluations Have would only be $50 with no points. I think that with so per for the convicted drivers. Letters to many other bigger issues we have in this state, why 4. They probably should do this in Westfield. Not Shown Consistent Thread of Praise the Editor do they have to go and do that? Have you heard only do some of the drivers ignore pedestrians, some Editor’s Note: The following letter was success as a third-grade teacher.” Year e-mailed to the Westfield Board of Edu- Three: Mike Cullen: “Congratulations on anything?” actually look the other direction and pretend not to cation on June 16 with a copy forwarded a fine year.” Year Four: Margaret Dolan: Citizens Looking for Some of the responses: see. It is almost comical seeing someone driving to the Westfield Board of Education: “Your evaluations have consistently 1. Some towns are really ramping up enforcement through town on Central Avenue with their phone at ***** pointed out, however, that you have failed Peace and Quiet? To the members of the Westfield Board to provide consistently effective instruc- A citizen looking for some peace and in areas that involve fines because they need cash their ear while looking out the passenger-side win- of Education, my name is Edward Hom. tion for your students.” quiet? How dare they! How un-Ameri- (and cops need raises?). True, there is chaos on town dow. I live at 888 Willow Grove Road in The consistent thread in Mr. can. Must be a conspiracy. We need more roads, and pedestrian safety is an easy target. 5. Westfield is giving same tickets. Pedestrian Westfield, and my son Zachary is a third Kravetsky’s evaluations has been praise advocates like Ms. Meade supporting the grader in Matt Kravetsky’s class at with specific details. Then, in year four, downtrodden and abused landscapers. By Kenilworth has always been tough on drivers. safety is a high priority. You literally take your life in Tamaques School. I was unable to attend there is a generalized criticism with no her response, I thought Mr. Mancini was Hmmm... using undercover cops is a new one (“Brave your hands when you try to cross East Broad Street the June 15 BOE meeting, so I am writing details and a non-renewal. The fact that advocating giving out handguns to 9- New World” and shades of “1984”). in town. I think it is a good thing. to add my thoughts. First and foremost, Mr. Kravetsky’s last evaluation was con- year-olds. 2. With the amount of pedestrians regularly mowed 6. I just got back from LBI for a few days. There, my wife and I are happy with the progress ducted after his non-renewal increases Morgan O’Brien Zachary has made in third grade. His the appearance of impartiality. If this was Westfield a $200 fine is imposed, and they show on huge signs reading, writing and math skills have my file to defend, I would earmark it for that two points are included. Interesting, too, with improved significantly, and Zachary has liability and exposure. This is not my file; Drivers Must Stop their 35 MPH zones, a few still go much faster, most had a good year. it is your file. Moving beyond the obvious Dear Graduates: He is happy, confident, he has friends fact that, as members of the board of ed, Using Cell Phones N.Y. plates. Others exceeding the speed limits look in school, and for that, Mr. Kravetsky you have a fiduciary duty to protect and I live on Hort Street in Westfield, a like townies. My bike can’t even get to 30 MPH. deserves a lot of credit. I am an attorney, cultivate the education of Westfield’s convenient cut-through street between In 2003, then-Westfield councilman in charge of and as part of my work, I review and children. As people, you have a duty to do South and Scotch Plains Avenues. The Congratulations manage employment practices claims. the right thing when you have the author- posted speed limit is 25 MPH. The other public safety (currently Mayor) Andrew Skibitsky When I try to assess liability, I review ity to do so. The right thing here is obvi- night, I took an impromptu poll. Out of 18 Enjoy the Moment; wrote in this newspaper, “… One transportation plan- personnel files and look for trends. Here ous. Reverse a non-renewal decision that cars that passed by my house, 14 were ner calculates that a driver going 40 MPH who sees a is my review of Mr. Kravetsky’s four was apparently made for a personal rea- going above the speed limit, and seven years at Tamaques: son and, in so doing, protect and cultivate were using cell phones while driving. Please Be Safe pedestrian 100 feet ahead will still be traveling 38 Year 1: From Mike Cullen: “Matt, the education of Westfield’s children. On June 15, my son came within sec- It’s once in a lifetime — Our high school gradu- MPH on impact. Had that same driver been traveling your first year as a third grade teacher has Bring Mr. Kravetsky back. onds of being killed. A woman driving a been a successful one.” Year Two: Mike ates, Class of 2010, have achieved their long-sought 25 MPH, he would have stopped before striking the Edward Hom black BMW SUV turned off of South Cullen: “Matt, you continue to meet with Westfield Avenue and drove down my street at milestone and deserve to celebrate. pedestrian.” about 35 MPH while talking on her cell We, your parents, teachers and the community, are Asm. Jon Bramnick of Westfield led the charge to Thanks to All Who Supported phone. My son was riding his razor proud of you. strengthen pedestrian-safety crosswalk laws a few scooter. He looked both ways before crossing the street. He hesitated and then While you celebrate this weekend and perhaps years back. Asw. Linda Stender of Fanwood also Our Papillon Garden Tour crossed. She did not see him until the last also with vacations this summer, please exercise followed up. We now have all the state laws necessary We are happy to report that the who attended, Texeria’s Bakery for do- minute. I screamed. He got to the other care to be sure of your safety and the safety of your on the books for enforcement and fines. But will laws Westfield Garden Club’s recent Papillon nating to the bake sale and to Bettina side of the street. She continued on her Garden Tour on June 12 was a great Bierly for providing the costumes for the way. She never stopped. I ran over to him classmates. change public behavior and reduce the problem? success thanks to the efforts of many Minisink garden. and burst into tears. He was terrified. He Enjoy all that the future will bring. As one writer put in his e-mail, “Between adjusting wonderful people. Many thanks also to our board mem- was wearing his bike helmet; he had my car radio and dialing my cell phone, I’m terrorized We are especially grateful to the gra- bers, committee chairmen and members, looked both ways before crossing. I was cious homeowners who opened their without whose dedicated efforts we could furious. This happens every day. No one about just when a pedestrian might pop out.” beautiful gardens for all to enjoy: Rever- not have coordinated this event. Their seems to be doing much about it. Talking end and Mrs. Ray Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. commitment was invaluable. on a cell phone while driving in New Kettleson, Diane Genco and Gene Established in 1922, The Garden Club Jersey is illegal. Why aren’t these drivers Westfield Resident Writes: ‘Sal Caruana - Finally, Schaefer, Mr. And Mrs. Toby Rekoon, of Westfield maintains an impressive list being ticketed? How can this continue? Mr. and Mrs. Manny Teixeira, and the of community projects including: Deco- Drivers do not always stop for pedes- residents of Cowperthwaite Square Con- rations and holiday wreaths on the mu- trians at the marked crosswalks. When I Someone Has The Guts to Tell It Like It Is’ dominiums. Our thanks also to all who nicipal buildings, flower planters at Broad walk my dog, I notice cars zooming past I wish to applaud Sal Caruana for his employees, 542 have the same surname people or of the Freeholders? attended for their glowing compliments and Elm Streets, weekly arrangements at the marked crosswalk at South Avenue excellent piece, “High Time to End as an elected Democrat. That’s almost Doing away with county government and for their enthusiastic support of our the Westfield Memorial Library, sup- and Tuttle Parkway. I have attempted to County Govt., Combine Services With 20 percent. And that does not include – although a wonderful idea – will prob- attic treasures boutique, plant and bake porting the Gene O’Neal Scholarship cross there, and to do so is to risk your life. the State,” in the June 17 edition of The all the relatives with different surnames ably not happen in my lifetime. But how sales, butterfly garden, Master Garden- Fund, plantings in Blue Star Byway at I have witnessed all ages; teens, moms Westfield Leader. and all those non-relative friends and about starting small – say convert to ers, and Costumes as Garden Art. Tamaques Park and Mindowaskin Park, with children in their cars, truck drivers, Finally, someone has the guts to tell cronies who just happened to be the district voting as a beginning first step. Special thanks to Williams Nursery, seasonal plantings at Lyons V.A. Hospi- senior citizens, car pool drivers and more. it like it is. Mr. Caruana addresses sev- best qualified for a given position. It’s It’s time the western suburbs of Union Baron’s Drug Store, Christoffers Flow- tal, and many others. Talking, texting, speeding while driving. eral issues of concern to Union County disgusting! County had a voice in its own govern- ers and Tom The Green Grocer for their Elaine Junguenet, Lecia DeHaven I am outraged that this behavior is residents. One that stands out to me is What I don’t understand is why we, the ment. publicity and ticket sales. A word of tolerated. People have been killed and the level of nepotism and cronyism in tax-paying citizens of Union County, can’t The Papillon Garden Tour Bruce Long appreciation is also given to Trader Joe’s The Garden Club of Westfield will continue to be injured and killed Union County. The facts are startling. get the facts as to just how far this nepo- Westfield for serving delicious refreshments to all because drivers talk on their phones while In 2006, out of 2,800 Union County tism goes. Is this a government of the driving. Would you want your dentist, Blaming Spill on Obama is Analogous surgeon or hairdresser talking on their cell phone while they worked on you? Drivers will not change their behavior To Blaming Carter for Three Mile Island until the police step up the enforcement Last week’s letter to the editor by Mr. case, nor should it ever be the case. and write tickets with hefty fines. Schoeman directly blaming the President Not only is Mr. Schoeman incorrect in I ask concerned Westfield residents to for the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, for his assessment of Mr. Obama’s personal contact our mayor, this newspaper, town lack of better terminology, was deliber- culpability, his assertion that the Presi- council members and PTO board. De- ately misleading and a sad sign of the dent has been negligent in his role of mand enforcement of this law. To all ignorance that currently plagues our civil enforcing the law is equally unfounded in drivers, is talking on the phone while discourse. the context of his “chief executive as driving the right thing to do? Is your Mr. Schoeman made one correct point: regulator” argument. In the past 3 years, phone call worth someone’s life, my life, indeed, the much-reviled Minerals Man- 1.5 of which Mr. Obama has been in your safety? With the school budget re- agement Service (MMS) falls under the office, OSHA has found BP guilty of 760 ductions and fewer crossing guards, how authority of the President. It is an agency willful safety violations. In October 2009, many near-misses will occur? How many in the federal bureaucracy and ultimately BP was fined $87 million by the federal Westfield children will be seconds away the President’s responsibility. However, government for other offenses. These find- from death? Next time you are stopped in the same is true for nearly every federal ings represent a clear pattern of action by line to drop the kids off at school, note regulatory and bureaucratic agency — a federal agencies, under the authority of how many parents are talking on their cell vast body encompassing over four million Mr. Obama, met by BP with 62 million phones from the driver’s seat. Speak up employees, including intelligence agen- page responses to subpoenas and a pro- and let other drivers know that you will cies and the military. In short, while the pensity to pay fines to avoid prosecution. not tolerate this. Go to Oprah Winfrey’s President does have the ultimate authority Surely an investigation will turn up a website and take the No Phone Pledge. I over agencies like the MMS, there are a cozy relationship between MMS and Big did. Share this with your kids. number of intermediary authorities, such Oil. If there is anything the financial crisis Please warn your children about driv- as cabinet secretaries and inspectors gen- and the Gulf tragedy have shown, it is that ers and phones. Insist that your children eral, which are designed to exercise closer we need to reexamine the relationship wear a helmet. It is the law. You should oversight of their respective agencies. between our regulatory agencies and those wear a helmet as well. Put the phone To attribute a level of blame to Mr. they are to regulate. However, consider down. You never know who will be zoom- Obama for the tragedy in the Gulf analo- this: BP falsified its drilling application for ing down your street posting something gous to that of the Titanic captain ignor- the Deepwater Horizon, claiming that they on FaceBook or chatting away...while ing warnings about dangerous ocean con- had the technology to prevent this sce- driving. However, I can guarantee you ditions is a gross mischaracterization of nario. Should the MMS have examined that we all will know when we read the President’s role as “Chief Executive” these claims more closely before approv- another story in the newspaper about and is simply a thinly veiled attack. This ing the permit? Absolutely. However, the someone who was killed or injured be- is analogous to blaming President Carter fact stands that BP willfully misled the cause of a careless and selfish driver for the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island government in order to do this dangerous whose hubris and poor choice prevented because the Nuclear Regulatory Com- type of offshore drilling, underlining the them from putting the phone down while mittee was under his administrative au- true villain in this disaster. in the car. thority. The President does not person- Benjamin Zakarin Ardis DeCamp ally monitor every regulatory board in Westfield every agency; this has never been the Westfield A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, June 24, 2010 Page 5 Letters to the Editor Caruana Is A ‘Hypocritical Tax- The Enterprise www.goleader.com/planet Hiking, Right-Wing Political Stooge’ By HORACE CORBIN I recently read a letter in your paper by cidence that many of these same candi- SAL CARUANA and PETER ECHAUSSE former [Westfield] Republican Council- dates favored deregulatory policies for Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times man Sal Caruana in which he makes wild banks and investment businesses such as accusations against myself and others in Caruana’s. county government. He even quotes the Some of the illustrious names that Sal Insurance Industry’s Predatory late Ted Kennedy for his inspiration. Caruana donated money to include: So I did a little research on former George Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Rick Pricing is Prelude to ObamaCare Councilman Caruana, who has long touted Santorum, Mike Ferguson, a whopping By SAL CARUANA How did he choose the lucky com- his governmental fiscal expertise and $5,000 to the Republican National Com- Spiraling healthcare costs are putting pany to offer the A quote? Usually it was work in the financial investment sector mittee in 2000 and Tom Kean, Jr., who enormous pressure on budgets in the pub- the one that offered the highest commis- off Wall Street. What I learned is that raked in more than $5,400 thanks to lic and private sectors. As many insur- sion at the time. What is truly incredible Caruana voted to raise municipal (not Caruana’s zest for politics. Oh, and by the ance companies try to push their profits is that some of our nation’s most presti- board of ed or county) taxes a whopping way, there wasn’t a Democrat — cer- ahead of the negative impacts of gious insurers participated in this price- AT THE RACES...On Father’s Day, Horace Corbin, left, and his son Benjamin 61 percent —from 2003-2009 while he tainly no one named Kennedy — that ObamaCare, they are raising premiums fixing scheme. Some later said that since enjoyed auto racing at New Jersey Motorsport Park in Millville. See story below. served as councilman. What makes it Caruana contributed to during this time. through the roof in 2010 everywhere they they were occasionally asked for A worse is that Caruana actually served as Thus, based on the facts, I think it’s fair can. quotes and won the subsequent busi- South of the Mason-Dixon Line; the town’s fiscal chairman for several of to assume that Sal Caruana himself is no Where they can is usually in places ness, they were afraid to refuse requests those years in which hefty tax increases more than a hypocritical tax-hiking, right- where the insurer or his broker succeeds for B quotes. were made. wing political stooge. in double-talking the company or mu- The brokers were smart in that they How Bad Can It Be? There’s something for Caruana, as a Sebastian D’Elia nicipality, arguing that the entire increase rotated the business around, which kept By HORACE CORBIN purposes) along with a piece of alumi- member of council and alleged fiscal Director of Public Information is justified because of the group’s poor the insurers interested and the scam alive. Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times num sheet metal. Then it was a run back expert, to hang his hat on. County of Union “experience” (health) in 2009. When the fraud finally unraveled, both If you go one mile past a WaWa and to the pit stop. The fuel pump was packed I chuckled heartily when Caruana While a jump in the number of claims the brokers and insurance companies pled take a right on Hogsbin Road, then an- with ice and the makeshift heat shield called me a political stooge in his letter, or a handful of new serious illnesses can the same brazen defense: It had been a other right on Buckshutem Road, you installed (dam vapor locks). and even had the gall to quote Kennedy, certainly impact a small group’s costs, common industry practice for years, one would think you were south of the Ma- Ebert is back on the track, and Bodmer a Democrat, as his inspirational call to the national surge in premiums points to they claimed insurance regulators either son-Dixon line – not in New Jersey. In radios, “How’s it running!? How’s it run- action. So I did a little more research on something else going on here: uneven accepted or chose to ignore. fact, you are south of the Mason-Dixon ning!?” – “Say again, say again,” yells Caruana. predatory pricing by an industry trying to Millions were paid in fines by multiple line, and you are in Millville, N.J. – home Ebert with the 6,000 RPM engine whine It appears Mr. Caruana has never met capitalize on the mass confusion created parties, and among those who did jail of New Jersey Motor Sports Park, a in background. Eventually, we hear “Per- a Republican he didn’t like making po- $)3#/6%2 litical contributions to during the past by the rancorous healthcare debate in time was a senior executive officer of the sprawling 700-acre facility with two road fectly, perfectly.” WHYMILLIONHOMEOWNERS Washington. two and a half decades. Caruana, accord- world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh courses, family camping and a It’s kind of difficult to know exactly TRUSTTHEIRHOMESTO The premium increase for my small and McLennan. Millions more were lost motorsports country club. who’s in first place during the timed race ing to the website campaignmoney.com businesses, which had no experience by consumers, who were forced by their From the perspective of residents in with the three mandatory 10-minute pit and the New Jersey Election Law En- events in 2009, was 15 percent. Recently, broker’s duplicity to pay higher prices for our area, New Jersey starts north of the stops. Ebert/Bodmer bobbed from sec- forcement Commission, made over 34!4%&!2- The Westfield Leader said “no thanks” to health insurance. Raritan River, and a day trip south of the ond to fourth most of the time in the field $22,000 in political contributions to Re- its insurer’s attempt to double the price. Have compensation practices changed border is something that seldom comes to of 40 or so cars. The announcer said, publican candidates and committees since The Town of Westfield flatly refused to since the 2004 scandal? No. In fact, confi- mind. Yet, it’s easy and fun to do. Just “Here comes The Westfield Leader mak- 1996. (And I am not even including the accept a 24-percent increase in 2010 from dentiality prohibits the buyer from finding remember, our southern friends have little ing a strong push for first.” (They let us $1,000 contribution he made to Tina its insurer, Horizon, and negotiated it out from the insurance company what knowledge of the Watchung Mountains. deck out the hood). Renna, herself a Cranford GOP county down to 15 percent for a considerable compensation their broker has earned on Last Sunday, my son Ben and I were After about two-and-one-half hours committeewoman.) Perhaps it’s no coin- savings to the taxpayer. his or her business. In January 2005, I invited by racecar drivers (weekend war- of racing, a few crashes and a couple of Union County, on the other hand, has encouraged the Westfield Town Council riors) Rich Bodmer of Westfield and disqualifications, Ebert/Bodmer finished Union County Freeholders accepted a 34-percent increase ($11 mil- to successfully adopt a provision that re- Michael Ebert of Cranford to join them at in second place. “Not bad with tires 10 Elizabethtown Plaza lion ) in 2010 from its new health insurer, quires disclosure by the broker of commis- the three-hour team race, “Street Mods” from E-Bay, parts help from Sean Elizabeth, New Jersey 07207 Christine Cosenza, Agent Cigna. A lengthy explanation from the sions earned as a condition of the relation- at the track. Dougherty at Eurosport in Westfield, (908) 527-4000 2 Elm Street county’s broker, Brown and Brown, was Westfield, NJ 07090-2148 ship. Is Brown and Brown’s commission They were terrific hosts, providing us support from Jim Shinn of United Crane George Devanney, Mgr. Bus: 908-233-9100 published in this newspaper on May 27. from Cigna on the $45-million transaction infield access to everything, including in Kenilworth and sponsoring by Camille [email protected] www.christinecosenza.net Last year, claims totaled $7 million more public knowledge? If not, would they mind radios to hear the poignant and colorful Meyer of Tribeca Med Spa (NYC),” than premiums paid, and Union County’s telling us? How does the county select its dialogue during the fray: “Yellow flag says Rich. Sebastian D’Elia, Public Info. healthcare costs in 2010 will be now insurance broker? hell, they should push the #!$** piece of “Just wait till I get that extra horse- (908) 527-4419 almost $45 million, just under 10 percent Political corruption always follows the junk off the track. What the #!$** is that power in there with the eight-cylinder [email protected] of its total budget. money. An on-going risk in New Jersey is #!$** doing?” engine, drop out the torque converter and Dan Sullivan, Bd. Chair In the insurance process, there is an that greedy politicians will tap eager bro- Using their SUV, we traveled to differ- add the stick shift gear box; We’ll blow [email protected] enormous conflict of interest that sur- kers and their huge commission honey ent areas of the 2.5-mile track, seeing the away the Mustangs,” he says with a wink. rounds independent insurance brokers. pots for a showing of appreciation. Maybe fierce competition at the turns. The Mus- Ebert/Bodmer can be reached online at To Reach Us While they ostensibly represent the buy- it’s a meal and limo, Giants tickets, a tangs had the muscle and blew away their www.racing-cards.net and by email — ers, the sellers – the insurance companies donation to one’s favorite charity or PAC, six-banger BMW on the straight-aways. [email protected]. E-Mail - [email protected] Phone - (908) 232-4407 – pay the brokers. So, to whom does the a job for a nephew or perhaps an all- The Ebert/Bodmer team accelerated “Must have been terrible out there with 3TATE&ARM&IREAND#ASUALTY#OMPANY broker owe his loyalty when he is shop- 3TATE&ARM'ENERAL)NSURANCE#OMPANY "LOOMINGTON ), expenses-paid trip to an “insurance con- its Beemer perfectly through the S-turns. the heat on Sunday,” others said to me. 3TATE&ARM&LORIDA)NSURANCE#OMPANY 7INTER(AVEN &, ping for insurance? Put another way, if ference” in Atlantic City or Hawaii — or Their skills are the real deal, and their “Well, let’s see,” I replied. “I’m with For more information, see 3TATE&ARM,LOYDS $ALLAS 48 there was one seat left in the lifeboat, who maybe something worse. team strategy was right-on. Several times, great people, have a charcoal burger laced www.goleader.com/help 0 would the broker pull from the sea? Recently, the FBI asked for the insur- the Mustangs spun out but came right with NASCAR BBQ sauce in one hand, Maybe neither, as we found out in a ance records of more than 30 New Jersey back in it. The race was on. a cold bottle of Bud [in the other], hear the national scandal in 2004 that rocked the municipalities and school boards, and my “Damn, we’re out of gas, we’re out of engines scream and tires squeal, get an health insurance industry. It was called suspicion is that we are on the brink of yet gas!” was the scream over the radio. A occasional whiff of 110 octane, and I am “throwing the quote.” In e-mails and another major broker fraud, this time at scramble was on – back to trailer. Ice was with my son on Father’s Day – How bad phone conversations, brokers from na- taxpayer expense. grabbed from the cooler (used for other can it be?” tional firms were caught asking leading Few who understand this business are insurance companies for written “A surprised. A relationship founded on such quotes” and “B quotes” for specific cli- an inherent conflict of interest can easily Mayor Malool to Hold ents. An A quote meant their best price, become vulnerable to other moral haz- while a B quote was understood to mean ards, and to individuals who would seek ‘Coffee With Mayor’ more expensive than usual and by all to take personal advantage of the fog. SCOTCH PLAINS — Mayor Nancy www.uniquecruiseandtravel.com means non-competitive. The broker Until we create policies that align broker Malool will her next “Coffee With the would then present the unwitting client compensation with the public interest Mayor” this Saturday, June 26, at the Carol Bevere Kearney• Proprietor with a handful of B quotes and one A and make the process more transparent, Farmers Market at 430 Park Avenue. The 207 CENTER STREET, GARWOOD quote, which he knew would win the the system and cost differentials will be mayor will be available from 9 a.m. until business. legitimate sources of concern. noon. goleader.com/subscribe 908-789-3303 D.A.R.E. Instructor Inspired Our Daunno Development is Proud to Announce Richard J. Kaplow, Esq. Class to Stay From Drugs, Alcohol The Grand Opening of Forest Glen Estates! Editor’s Note: The following is an essay Was it the right choice? You decide to “25 Years Experience” by a fifth-grader at Washington School. stay home that night and watch a movie WESTFIELD – On Saturday and keting Director, Rudolph A. Daunno, Her teacher, Susan McClelland, asked what with your friends. Your real friends are the Sunday, June 26 and 27, Daunno III, “This grand opening is an event Civil & Criminal Trial Lawyer did you learn in D.A.R.E.? ones who don’t pressure you and the ones Development Company, LLC will for the community. While there are Most teenagers make wise decisions who don’t take drugs or alcohol. unveil the first home at Forest Glen only three homes for sale in the subdi- about alcohol and drugs, but some don’t. Healthy lungs are pink and soft, but Estates. The vision, we feel at- FAMILY LAW Officer Moore helped teach our fifth-grade unhealthy lungs are black filled with smoke. project is a luxuri- class to improve in our decisions and im- Our class learned that when you do drugs, tending can ben- · Divorce · Domestic Violence prove just as people. If I see someone with they can affect your body and what you ous, three-lot sub- efit any home- a cigarette, I will try and walk away from say, do, and think. When you smoke, all of division set on a owner. Are you · Custody · Child Support them so the smoke doesn’t get sucked into the smoke goes straight into your lungs. new cul-de-sac ad- considering a new my lungs. Officer Moore inspired all of our Even if you quit smoking, your lungs will jacent to Rahway home, addition or class and taught us to stay away from drugs. never be the same. Yes, cigars are not as Avenue in renovation? Come Kids can easily be persuaded to take bad but still are very un-healthy for you. Westfield, N.J. take a look at our · DWI · Criminal Defense drugs or alcohol. For one thing, your mom The smoke builds up into your stomach could be watching the news and you hap- with cigars, too. Did you know that each The homes will work firsthand! · Business Disputes Commercial Litigation back a preserved pen to poke your head in. After a while, the pack of cigarettes will take 11 minutes off Are you remodel- Former Assistant Union County Prosecutor news goes to a commercial break. On the of your life? I didn’t, until we learned section of ing a kitchen or TV, you see a happy couple enjoying an about it in D.A.R.E. I am sorry that Tamaques Park, bathroom? Come alcoholic beverage on the beach. The people D.A.R.E. is being canceled and wish it and the cul-de-sac see the latest styles are laughing, and they look like they are may be able to be continued. My younger will be exclusive to the three homes. and designs! Everyone is welcome!” having the time of their lives. You start to sister will not be able to experience the These unique homes are planned (908) 232-8787 have second thoughts about not trying al- things we did in D.A.R.E. I think canceling The homes will be offered through cohol. Then you remember what Officer DARE is a mistake. to start at 4,000 square feet, with Daunno Realty Services starting at Moore taught you in class. You turn off the Any gateway drug can affect you. Alco- three-car side-entry garages, finished $1,749,000. The price will increase TV and go outside. hol can affect your heart, liver, lungs, your basements (two of three will be walk- on a per-square-foot basis for homes 24 Hours · 53 Elm Street, Westfield, NJ 07090 Officer Moore taught us about certain mouth, your throat and your brain. To- out), generous allowances for cabi- larger than 4,000 feet. For more in- [email protected] richardjkaplow.com drugs called gateway drugs. The gateway bacco and marijuana can affect you in all nets, countertops, appliances and formation on this project or any of drugs are tobacco, marijuana and alcohol. of these places, too. Even one puff of a complete landscape packages. Daunno Development’s other work, They are easy to get and are available in cigarette can hurt your body and can hurt most drug stores. I didn’t know that those others, too. If you’re an adult and you have Each home at Forest Glen will be please visit us on the web at drugs were called gateway drugs and could kids, don’t smoke. You’re just increasing custom designed by Beer and www.daunno.com or call us at (732) be so addicting. He taught us that we the chance for lung cancer for both you and Coleman Architects of Warren. The 910-3043. exteriors will boast Hardie Plank sid- financial shouldn’t believe what advertisements say, your child. Make a wise decision for you Directions: Mapquest / GPS 1538 or TV commercials, and told us to stay and your child and quit now. Is your ing, AZEK trim and beautiful cul- Rahway Ave., Westfield, N.J. 07090 away from drugs completely. During D.A.R.E., Officer Moore in- tured stone. The interiors will in- Time: 12-5 P.M. Saturday and Sun- Another topic that I’m going to talk spired me to listen to my instinct. He clude hardwood floors, marble tile, day, the 26th and 27th about is peer pressure. Your friends are taught me to make wise and healthy deci- exquisite woodwork and trim, and Paid Bulletin Board having a party while their parents are out of sions about drugs. I, Chloe Schafer, pledge advisor (Missing in Action) town. They said that their parents keep to make wise decisions about alcohol, to- the latest trends in tile and cabinetry. goleader.com/express MIA? beer downstairs in the cooler, and they’re bacco, marijuana and all other drugs. I According to the company’s Mar- going to try some. They invited you to hope to set an example for my peers and When was the last time you sat do come. They’re calling you mean names in soon-to-be fifth graders. Officer Moore is school because you haven’t responded yet. the best D.A.R.E. instructor ever. I have a to review your investments? What should you do? Officer Moore taught younger sister, and I hope she can have the When was the last time your ﬁnan us how to deal with peer pressure. Make same wonderful learning experience like LAWRENCE A. WOODRUFF the right decision. Define the problem, me in D.A.R.E.! along with your attorney and CPA assess the choices, respond and make a Individualized Financial choice, and evaluate your decision. Chloe Schafer Attorney Westfield Planning Services: N.J. Divorce Mediator • Education Planning • Retirement Planning • Investment Planning • Risk Planning • Estate Planning Divorce & Mediation Estate Planning & Probate Call or stop by for a complimentary General Practice Retirement Plan Analysis. Bill Logue, RFC, CCPS Financial Planner 201 South Avenue E. 908-228-8400 Located at Westfield BillLogue.com 1199 Route 22 East Blogue.retirementtime.com Mountainside, NJ 07092 654-8885

Registered Representative of INVEST Financial Corporation (INVEST), member FINRA/SIPC. Eve. & Sat. Appointments INVEST and its affiliated insurance agencies offer securities, advisory services and certain insurance products and are not affiliated with Clear Focus, LLC. 10fj8278-0611-71596 Page 6 Thursday, June 24, 2010 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Library Reveals Calendar POLICE BLOTTER Of Summer Youth Events GARWOOD – The Garwood Pub- about oceans, sea creatures, fish or Westfield lic Library has begun registration amphibians. Reading logs will be dis- detainers from Rahway, for $1,000; Monday, June 14, a resident of the Linden, for $982; Clark, for $500; New- for this year’s Summer Reading tributed upon registration. 100 block of Elmer Street reported the Club, with log-in of reading times ark, for $500, and Edison, for $176. During the summer, there will be theft of $1,300 from her home. Some- Monday, June 21, a resident of the 600 to start on Monday, June 28. crafts for children on Tuesdays at 3 one unknown removed the money while block of Dorian Road reported the theft Children from pre-kindergarten to p.m., and movies for children on the residence was unoccupied, accord- of a 28-inch, girls’ Fuji black-and-silver fifth grade are encouraged to read Thursdays at 2 p.m. For further de- ing to police. bicycle from the homeowner’s garage. anything they like over the summer tails, check the library’s online cal- Monday, June 14, a resident of the Mountainside and to record the amount of time endar. 300 block of Wells Street reported acts Wednesday, June 16, Richard G. they spend reading in their personal Registration is required for both of criminal mischief. Someone un- Murillo, 42, of Chatham was arrested reading log. Times can be recorded of these events and can be done in known used fireworks to blow up the for contempt of court at the Chatham through Tuesday, August 10. person at the library, by calling (908) victim’s mailbox and a bag of topsoil in Police Department on outstanding war- On Thursday, August 12, the an- 789-1670 or at the library’s interac- the victim’s yard also was set on fire. rants out of Mountainside, in the amount nual closing activities will take tive calendar found on its website, Tuesday, June 15, Brandon Nieves, of $400; Clifton, in the amount of place, with a “Make Your Own Sun- youseemore.com/garwood. Courtesy of Carole Tener 49, of Roselle was arrested during a $1,000; Summit, in the amount of dae” ice cream party and prizes The library also will have avail- BEST FRIENDS…The Friends of Westfield Symphony Orchestra (WSO), the motor vehicle stop at Central and Lenox $1,000; Cranford, in the amount of auxiliary social and fund-raising arm of WSO, presents a check for $20,000 to Avenues on two Elizabeth warrants to- $500; Irvington, in the amount of $301, given to the children who read the able a collection of many of the WSO Music Director David Wroe at the season-finale celebration, which took most. There also will be a few ran- high school summer reading list taling $366 bail. He was released after and a no-bail warrant out of the Passaic place last week at the home of Jitendra and Veena Sharma. Pictured, from left to posting bail. dom prize drawings for all who books. Because of the high demand right, are: Maestro Wroe; Gretchen Castorina, 2010 Home Tour chairwoman; County Sheriff’s Department. participated. Tuesday, June 15, Stanley Paul, 22, Wednesday, June 16, Vincent Roche, and limited copies, books will be Friends Co-Presidents Veena Sharma and Shuang Guo, as well as WSO Board of Roselle was arrested at Cranford In order to receive a “bonus” prize, lent for one month only, with no President Mark Fleder. The WSO season will recommence on September 25 with 45, of Perth Amboy was arrested and children should read at least two books an opera in concert double-bill performance of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci. police headquarters on a Westfield charged with possession of drug para- renewals, in order to give other stu- warrant in the amount of $593. He was phernalia after a motor vehicle stop on dents a chance to complete their held in lieu of bail. Route 22, West. He was transported to Westfield Library Posts requirements. Required reading Rotary Foundation Awards Wednesday, June 16, a GPS unit and police headquarters, processed and re- items for Garwood Public Schools’ a camera, totaling $1,250 in value, were leased. Film Times Correction middle school students also will be reported stolen from a motor vehicle Thursday, June 17, a resident of Ce- WESTFIELD – In a previous an- available with the same restrictions. $92K Worth of Scholarships belonging to a resident of the 600 block dar Avenue reported that his unlocked nouncement, the Westfield Memo- On Wednesday, July 7, author of Elm Street. The vehicle was parked bicycle was removed from the bike rial Library Foreign Film Festival Brad Parks will visit the library at 7 WESTFIELD – The Westfield Gerdes Scholarship, valued at in the victim’s driveway at the time. rack at Deerfield School. start times were incorrectly stated as p.m. to do a reading from his thriller Rotary Club Foundation presented $2,000. She will attend Fairfield Thursday, June 17, Sonya Vinson, Thursday, June 17, an employee at a 2 and 6 p.m. The correct start times “Faces of the Gone” and hold a 23 local college-bound students University. 39, of East Orange was arrested on Sheffield Street business reported that are 2 and 6:30 p.m. question-and-answer session about with scholarship money totaling Caroline Yeager was presented with warrants from Westfield, in the amount someone removed her wallet from the The remaining five films will be his work and the process of coming $92,000 at the organization’s an- the Rotary Foundation’s largest of $1,000; Newark, in the amount of cafeteria at work. According to police, shown on alternate Mondays up with a bestseller. nual Scholarship Awards Luncheon award, in honor of Westfield Rotarians $250, and Wayne, in the amount of her bank and credit card companies throughout June, July and August. On Friday, July 16, local author held June 15 at the Westfield Area Living and Deceased: a $10,000, four- $120. She was picked up at East Or- alerted her that there was fraudulent The library is located at 550 East Dinah Dunn will hold a session of “Y” in Westfield. year scholarship. She will attend the ange police headquarters, transported activity on her accounts. Broad Street. ghost stories beginning at 2 p.m. Foundation Scholarship Commit- University of Delaware. to Westfield police headquarters and Friday, June 18, a resident of Chip- The upcoming films include The for children in grades 5 and up. tee Chairwoman Liz Ensslin pre- Two $5,000 scholarships were processed, but was unable to post bail. munk Hill reported that someone en- sided over the scholarship presen- awarded in memory of the late Harry Friday, June 18, responding to a com- tered his basement through a side win- Maid (Spain), to be shown on June On Monday, July 19, Snakes-n- plaint, police located a party on the 400 28; Shall We Kiss? (France), on July Scales will present a program with tations in collaboration with the se- Sturcke, a Rotarian for 69 years and dow. According to police, nothing ap- lection committee, comprised of a major donor to the Rotary Foun- block of St. Marks Avenue, where they peared to be missing at the time. 12; Broken Embraces (Spain), on live animals entitled “Reptile River discovered approximately 29 juveniles Friday, June 18, a resident of Pheas- July 26; White Ribbon (Germany), Rulers” at 2 p.m. Rotarians Nancy Jackson, Alison dation. His widow, Dorothy Sturcke, consuming alcohol. The juveniles were participated. The scholarships went ant Hill Road reported that she was on August 9 and Departures (Ja- Registration is required for all of Brafman, Roger Love, Mary Ellen released to their parents. The owners of having a party with eight adolescent pan), on August 23. these events. The children’s pro- O’Boyle and Margaret Subhas. to Justin Snyder, who will attend the residence where the party was being guests who were advised not to go near This film festival is open to Westfield grams will be limited to 30 partici- Criteria for consideration, ac- Johns Hopkins University, and Jus- held were not at home at the time, but the pool until she was ready. According Memorial Library and MURAL pants, with preference given to cording to Ms. Ensslin, include aca- tin Rosin, who plans to attend Ithaca were issued a town code violation for to police, while she went inside to get cardholders. To register, visit the Garwood residents first. demic achievement, service to the College. Two more Sturcke memo- disorderly premise, according to police. something, one of the children fell into library’s website, wmlnj.org, and click The Garwood Public Library is community and financial need. Re- rial scholarships, valued at $2,500 Saturday, June 19, Rashaan O’Neal, the pool and possibly hit his head on the on the Online Calendar, or call (908) located at the corner of Walnut Street cipients must be Westfield residents each, were awarded to Shannon 22, of Newark was arrested during a coping. The other children assisted the 789-4090, extension no. 4140. and Third Avenue, at the back of the who are graduating seniors enrolled Doyle, who will attend John Carroll traffic stop in the area of Lamberts Mill child, who was face down in the pool, For more information on library Lincoln School complex. During the in an accredited high school. University, and Victoria Cheung, Road and Jacobs Lane on an outstand- by turning him on his back and helping programs, access wmlnj.org, sign summer, the library is open Monday “Rotary’s group of scholarships who is going to Rutgers University. ing Irvington warrant in the amount of him out of the pool, authorities re- up on the website to receive the e- through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 are financed by proceeds from the Pamela and David Read presented $350. He was transported to Westfield ported. The child began to cry and newsletter, “Library Loop,” or stop p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4:30 club’s yearly Pancake Breakfast and two scholarships funded by their police headquarters, processed and re- cough but seemed lethargic. Paramed- by the library for a copy of its quar- p.m. The library will be closed on Grand Raffle and a managed fund father, the late Robert Read, a leased after posting the full cash bail. ics transported him to Morristown terly newsletter, “Take Note.” Saturdays until after Labor Day. comprised of donations and bequests former president of the Rotary Club. Saturday, June 19, three residents of Memorial Hospital, police said. by Rotarians, their families and Jessica Modon picked up $3,000 the 1200 block of Prospect Street re- Saturday, June 19, Stephanie A. Tho- friends,” said Mark Elsasser, chair- from the Linda Read Health Sci- ported that their mailboxes were tar- mas, 24, of Roselle Park was arrested Lance Votes Against TARP 3, man of the foundation board. “The ences Scholarship Fund and will geted for criminal mischief during the for allegedly driving while intoxicated club foundation Scholarship Com- attend Colgate University. Rebecca previous night. (DWI) after a motor vehicle stop on Saturday, June 19, Yukima Vannoy, Route 22, at which time she was clocked mittee also administers several schol- Romano, who will attend 43, of Westfield was arrested on two Muhlenberg College, was presented allegedly traveling at 101 mph. She As Measures Passes House arships on behalf of the community- outstanding Westfield warrants, total- was processed and released to a re- based Westfield Foundation.” with $2,000 from the Winifred and ing $140, after turning herself in at sponsible adult. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Saying Report on the burden federal regula- Barbara Doyle Frantz, represent- Robert Read Law Scholarship Fund. Westfield police headquarters. She was Monday, June 21, Luis M. Santiago, the American people are tired of tions impose on small businesses. ing the Westfield Foundation, pre- Jason Yang received $2,500 from processed and released after posting bail. 28, of Newark was arrested following a Washington bailouts, Rep. Leonard He said his legislation also would sented her organization’s two top the scholarship fund honoring the Saturday, June 19, Daniel Carmo, motor vehicle stop for allegedly driv- Lance (R-7th) has voted against the improve lending to small businesses scholarships, in memory of Charles late Emerson Thomas, who was a 20, of Linden was arrested on a ing without a license. According to $32-billion bailout legislation known by increasing the maximum loan size and Florence Wallace, totaling Rotarian, local businessman and Westfield warrant after turning himself police, he also was found to be a wanted as TARP (Troubled Relief Asset Pro- in the 7(a) program, creating a direct $15,000 each paid over the course philanthropist. in at Westfield police headquarters. He person out of Puerto Rico in the amount gram) 3.0. The measure passed the lending Capital Backstop program of four years. They went to Mat- Rotarian honor scholarships, val- was processed and released after post- of $50,000. He was transported to po- House of Representatives by a vote for small businesses, and enhancing thew Teese, who will attend ued at $3,000 each, were presented ing $190 bail. lice headquarters, processed and turned of 241-182. the micro-loan program. Villanova University, and Kathleen to Andrew Deutchman, who has Saturday, June 19, Ethan Powell, 25, over to the National Crime Information “This $32-billion proposal put forth “Small businesses do not need bail- O’Donnell-Pickert, who will attend elected Stevens Institute, and Jenna of Westfield was arrested on a Westfield Center (NCIC) for extradition. by the Democratic Leadership is yet outs. They need free-market solu- Quinnipiac University. Rodrigues, who will attend warrant after turning himself in at Fanwood another taxpayer-funded bailout that tions to grow, expand and hire. My Two scholarships valued at Princeton University. Westfield police headquarters. He was Tuesday, June 15, James Felton, 3rd, will drive up our $13-trillion national legislation will help New Jersey’s $2,500, also memorializing Charles Honor scholarships, in the amount processed and released after posting 23, of Plainfield was arrested on an debt and crowd out funding in the small businesses by extending tax and Florence Wallace, were of $2,500, were presented to Eliza- $114 bail. outstanding Scotch Plains warrant af- private market for New Jersey’s small relief, reducing regulatory paperwork awarded by Ms. Frantz to Jill Pate, beth Kamel for Bryn Mawr Col- Sunday, June 20, Mario Aasmae, 21, ter a motor vehicle stop on Terrill Road. businesses,” Mr. Lance said. “Instead and increasing the number of small who will attend Alvernia College, lege; Patricia Whitehead for Col- of Roselle Park and Max Mironov, 19, He was transported to police headquar- of Monmouth Junction were arrested ters, processed and turned over to the of learning from the mistakes of the business loans,” Mr. Lance concluded. and to Brittany Graham, who will lege of the Holy Cross; Trent Gabriel in connection with a motor vehicle stop first two TARP bank bailout bills, the Mr. Lance also voted in favor of a for University of Maryland; Austin Scotch Plains Police Department for attend Elon College. at Springfield Avenue and Route 22 in failure to post bail. majority party has recklessly passed Republican proposal to repeal the Ms. Frantz presented Alexa Zepka Wenta for Rutgers University, and Springfield. Wednesday, June 16, Teresa Mobley, TARP 3.0.” “individual mandate” in the new with the Foundation’s Chester Lacy Cummings for The College of Aasmae was charged with hindering 38, of Plainfield was arrested on an Mr. Lance is the co-author of the health care reform law. Twenty-one William and Mary. apprehension of self for allegedly giving outstanding Watchung warrant after a “Small Business Assistance and Re- Democrats joined 166 Republicans Donations of Pajamas The $1,500 Weyman Steengrafe officers a fraudulent name. He was trans- motor vehicle stop on East 7th Street. lief Act” – legislation that, he said, in support of the repeal, but the effort Sought For Children Scholarship, in memory of the ported to Westfield police headquarters She was transported to police head- would provide important tax relief to failed 187 to 230. former Rotary Club president and and processed. During processing, au- quarters, processed and released after small businesses and reduce regula- “The health care law presents hard- WESTFIELD – The Westfield past Rotary District Governor who thorities learned criminal warrants had posting bail. tory burdens. Specifically, the Small working, tax-paying Americans a Memorial Library will collect new served as principal of two local been issued for Aasmae by Cranford and Wednesday, June 16, a business on Business Assistance and Relief Act stark choice – buy government-ap- infant and children’s pajamas, of all schools, was presented to Kathleen Roselle Park, in the amounts of $1,126 South Avenue reported that an indi- would extend until 2012 tax relief for proved health insurance or pay a hefty sizes, from Monday, June 28, through O’Neill, who will attend Fairfield and $250, respectively. He was held in vidual removed multiple packs of gum small businesses including the five- tax,” Mr. Lance said. Saturday, July 17. The pajamas will University. lieu of bail and issued a summons on the from the store without paying and fled year Net Operating Loss Carryback, He said the individual mandate is be distributed to children who live in Honor scholarships, valued at Westfield charge. in a red, two-door Honda traveling west the 15-year recovery period for quali- a key provision in the new health orphanages, group homes and shel- $1,500 each, were presented to Mironov was charged with posses- on South Avenue. The suspect was de- fied leasehold improvement, restau- care law requiring every individual ters through The Pajama Program, a Michael Ruschmann, who will at- sion of less than 50 grams of suspected scribed as a black male, approximately rant, and leasehold property, and bo- and small business to purchase not-for-profit organization. tend Rutgers University, and Tara marijuana and possession of drug para- 30 years old, 5 feet and nine inches tall, nus depreciation; enhance Section health insurance or face federal The library is located at 550 East Criscuolo, who will attend The Col- phernalia. He was transported to having a medium build, with a bald 179 Expensing Limits which pro- fines of $695 for individuals and Broad Street. For more information, lege of New Jersey. Westfield police headquarters, pro- head and facial hair. He wore a gray call the library at (908) 789-4090, cessed and released on a summons. sweat suit with green stripes. vides an incentive to invest in the $2,000 per employee for a small Sunday, June 20, police report a ga- business; increase the new business business. extension no. 3. Mining Museum Offers Thursday, June 17, Rokiya Fields, 32, To learn about other youth or adult rage door on a Sunnywood Drive resi- of Plainfield was arrested following a start-up deduction from $5,000 to “The vote to repeal the individual dence was the target of criminal mis- motor vehicle stop on South Avenue for $20,000; reduce regulatory burdens mandate is the first salvo in the effort programs at the library, go to the Training For Teachers chief. There were no suspects. library’s website, wmlnj.org, sign up allegedly providing police with false in- by ensuring any federal regulation to repeal the unaffordable ObamaCare AREA – The Sterling Hill Min- Sunday, June 20, a light pole at a formation. She was transported to police does not require a small business to and replace it with fiscally respon- for the monthly electronic newsletter, ing Museum has announced Pro- residence on the 1200 block of Central headquarters, processed and released. spend more than 200 man-hours an- sible health care solutions that lower “Library Loop,” call (908) 789-4090 fessional Development training for Avenue was the target of criminal mis- Friday, June 18, Mary Gecha-Gerus, nually on paperwork, applications, the cost of health insurance,” Mr. or stop by the library for a copy of its teachers entitled “Minerals: An In- chief, according to police. 62, of Scotch Plains was arrested and or petitions, and requiring a GAO Lance said. quarterly newsletter, “Take Note.” tensive Overview” will be held Sunday, June 20, Tara Battieste, 27, charged with disorderly conduct after Wednesday, July 7, from 9 a.m. to of Rahway was arrested at Plainfield police were called to a South Avenue 3:30 p.m. at its facility, located at police headquarters on outstanding store. She was transported to police 30 Plant Street in Ogdensburg. criminal and traffic warrants from headquarters, processed and released. This classroom module is de- Westfield, in amounts of $350 and $50, Friday, June 18, Richard Santiago, Give yourself signed to “hook” students by fea- respectively. She was transported to 44, of North Plainfield was arrested on turing minerals as objects of fasci- Westfield police headquarters, pro- an outstanding Rahway warrant after a nation rather than simply compo- cessed and then taken to the Union motor vehicle stop on Terrill Road. He a reason to smile. nents of rocks. Participants will County jail in lieu of bail. According to was processed and released after post- learn how to construct a compass police, Battieste also had criminal ing bail. from a natural mineral, see how Dr. Nina O’Connell offers personalized dentistry nature created fiber-optic materials to meet your individual needs. Dr. O’Connell will long before they were made in a laboratory, and learn why diamonds listen to your dental concerns, allay your fears are called “ice” among jewel thieves and put together a custom designed treatment and why some minerals are regarded as gemstones and others are not. plan to give you the smile you deserve. Multiple hands-on activities are available for teachers to choose Dr. O’Connell uses the most advanced dental from. As a classroom presentation, it can be adapted to almost any age technology to achieve a beautiful healthy smile. group or level of experience upon This includes anxiety free Waterlase dentistry, prior consultation with the instructor. Professional Development porcelain veneers, in-office whitening and Hours are 6. tooth colored fillings. To register for this teacher work- Call today to take advantage of our shop with a scientist at Sterling Hill, complimentary new patient examination contact Teresa, Sterling Hill education coordinator, at [email protected] Nina D. O’Connell, DMD and four bitewing check-up x-rays. or call (570) 686-7611. Individuals 169 Mountain Avenue (a $176.00 value) may visit sterlinghill.org for a com- HONOREES…The New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs (NJSFWC) plete list of events. recently acknowledged the Woman’s Club of Westfield (WCW) with certificates of Westfield, NJ 07090 We look forward to seeing you! merit for notable accomplishments in the areas of Arts Creative, Arts Performing, Tel. 908.654.0095 Expiration date 8/20/10. Communications, International Affairs, Membership and Public Affairs. At the See it all on the Web! annual NJSFWC Convention in Atlantic City, WCW members Dolores Geisow, president, right, and Roseleen Flaherty, bulletin editor, left, were recognized with www.goleader.com their names inscribed on the Federation Honor Roll, which since 1913 has honored Woman’s Club members for hard work, achievement and dedication. A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, June 24, 2010 Page 7 Library Reveals Reduction Local Girl Scouts Among In Hours Effective July 1 143 Gold Award Honorees SCOTCH PLAINS – The Scotch now be: Monday and Thursday, 9 GARWOOD – One hundred-and- to create something that will have a Plains Public Library has announced a.m. to 9 p.m.; Tuesday and Friday, 9 forty-three young women were pre- lasting impact long after the project is a reduction in hours starting Thurs- a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 8 a.m. to sented with Girl Scouting’s highest completed. Approximately 6 percent day, July 1, 2010. The library will 5 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. honor for its girl members – the Girl of Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassa- now close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and The library will be closed on Sunday. Scout Gold Award – at Girl Scouts dors nationwide earn the Gold Award. Wednesday evenings. For the months The Scotch Plains Public Library Heart of New Jersey’s (GSHNJ) Sec- The keynote speaker for the Achieve- of July and August, Saturday hours is located at 1927 Bartle Avenue, ond Annual Gold Award Dinner and ment Ceremony was Rutherford native will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and one block from Park Avenue in the Ceremony on June 6 at The Westwood Dr. Liz Henry. A First Class Girl Scout Sunday hours will be eliminated. center of the township. For further in Garwood. (the predecessor to the Gold Award), According to a release issued by information or directions, call (908) GSHNJ’s seven-county region in- Dr. Henry earned a degree in English the library, the board of trustees 322-5007. cludes Hudson, Essex, Union, from Princeton University and a de- took this action as a result of a large Somerset, Hunterdon, southern War- gree in Medicine at the University of cut in the operating budget by the ren and parts of Middlesex. Among Pennsylvania Medical School. township and elimination of ser- Dembiecs Welcome the communities represented were An active Girl Scout volunteer and vices from the State of New Jersey. GOLDEN DAY…Peter and Gloria Abitante celebrated their 50th wedding Cranford (two girls), Scotch Plains the mother of a Cadette Girl Scout, Dr. Many staff will see a reduction in Son, Peyton Alfred anniversary at the Spanish Tavern in Mountainside on June 12. They have been (three girls) and Westfield (10 girls), Henry leads GSHNJ Service Unit 67 their hours as a result of the cuts, Jeffrey and Vicki Dembiec of residents of Westfield for 45 of their 50 years together. Pictured with the couple along with Fanwood, Clark and in Franklin Township. She also con- the library release said. Scotch Plains have announced the are their sons, George and Peter; their daughters-in-law, Patty and Yon, and their Kenilworth, each of which had one ducts workshops for “tweens” and “We regret this move and know birth of their son, Peyton Alfred grandchildren, Miki, Alissa, Kristen, Alexandra and Max. girl earning this high honor. teens on health and wellbeing, and is that a reduction in open hours will Dembiec, on Thursday, October 22, The Girl Scout Gold Award is developing a website for these age place a strain on our many custom- 2009, at 4:12 p.m. at Overlook Hos- achieved by girls who undertake rigor- groups and their parents that will ad- ers,” said Meg Kolaya, library direc- pital in Summit. Children’s Summer Events ous leadership projects by committing dress such issues as self-esteem, bul- tor. “We sincerely hope to be able to Peyton weighed 7 pounds and 6 a minimum of 65 hours to their plan- lying and peer pressure. restore these hours in future years.” ounces and measured 19¾ inches in ning, implementation and completion. GSHNJ is one of New Jersey’s larg- This is the second year that the length at birth. He joins his brothers, To Start Tuesday at Library The project portion of the award est girl-serving organizations, com- library budget has been reduced by Patrick, 9, Michael, 8, and Matthew, 6. FANWOOD – The Fanwood Me- “Pirate Magic,” with magician Mark challenges the girls to venture out prising more than 26,000 girls and the township. Pending cuts from The baby’s maternal grandparents morial Library will offer a diverse Dolson, on July 26; “Marine Sci- into the community and address the 11,000 volunteers. For more informa- the state include elimination of are Jarold and Marcia Abbott of Port program of summer activities for ence Party,” with marine biologist root cause of an issue. Gold Award tion on Girl Scouts or to volunteer, call online databases, interlibrary loan St. Lucie, Fla. children entitled “Make A Splash! – Diane Gitler, on August 2, and candidates use community resources (908) 232-3236 or visit gshnj.org. and delivery, training, regional ser- Walter and Karen Dembiec of Read.” “Bubble Night” (be prepared to get vices and web-hosting, according Hilton Head Island, S.C., formerly of According to Children’s Librar- wet) on August 9. to the library release. Westfield, are his paternal grandpar- ian Susan Staub, the summer itiner- Craft sessions will be held on Hours for July and August will ents. ary will include storytimes, book Wednesdays at noon from July 7 groups, music, crafts and drama. The through August 11, for kindergarten library is located at North Avenue through grade 5. Prior registration is and Tillotson Road. not required. Registration is now being accepted Area residents are invited to visit for the various reading programs, the library for details on the Sum- open to children in kindergarten mer Musical Workshop: Three of a through grade 7. These programs Kind, and additional dates plus in- will run from Wednesday, June 30, formation regarding specific pro- through Friday, August 13. All are grams. They also may call (908) available free of charge. 322-4377 or access the Events Cal- “Make A Splash! – Read” will cel- endar at fanwoodlibrary.org. ebrate its opening on June 30 with an inflatable slide/maze, “Wilson the Rahway AARP Posts Whale,” on the library lawn from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for children in Casino Trip July 1 kindergarten through grade 5. AREA – The American Associa- GOLDEN GROUP…Girl Scouts from Westfield, Scotch Plains, Fanwood and The Summer Drama Workshop tion of Retired Persons (AARP) of Cranford were among 143 young women from Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey (for grades 5 to 9), which will begin Rahway will hold its monthly trip to who received their Gold Award during a ceremony June 6 at The Westwood in Tuesday, June 29, and end with two Atlantic City’s Showboat Casino on Garwood. GENEROUS KIDS…Students at the Redeemer Lutheran School in Westfield performances on Wednesday, July Thursday, July 1. gather for presentation of their donation to The Arc of Union County. The 28, also is accepting registrations The cost is $22, with a $30 cash donation will benefit the playground fence project at The Arc Bright Beginnings for sessions in June and July. All voucher. The bus will leave at 8:30 Oasis-Church-NJ. com Plans Child Development Center in Cranford. On hand to accept the donation was sessions must be attended. Space is a.m. and return at 6:30 p.m. To reserve Tanner Bell, pictured at far left, The Arc’s Ambassador of Goodwill 2010 and a limited. a spot, interested individuals are asked student at The Arc Kohler School. Funding for the Summer Drama to call Irene at (732) 499-7740. New Series Starting Sunday Workshop has been made possible MOUNTAINSIDE – Oasis- they devote as much time and en- in part by the New Jersey State Coun- Hiking Club Activities Church-NJ.com will begin a new ergy to their spiritual lives as they Redeemer School Students cil on the Arts, Department of State, series entitled “Fanatic” this Sun- do to such pastimes as concerts and a partner agency of the National Are Available to All day, June 27, at 11 a.m. Church sporting events. Endowment for the Arts, through a COUNTY – The Union County services are held at 1180 Spruce Begun as an online advice site, Make Donation to The Arc grant administered by the Union Hiking Club invites members of the Drive in Mountainside. All are wel- Oasis-Church-NJ.com offers a WESTFIELD – Students of Re- and adults with developmental dis- County Office of Cultural and Heri- community to take part in its regular come. David Butler is lead pastor. blend of relevant Biblical messages deemer Lutheran School in Westfield abilities and their families. tage Affairs. This program also re- schedule of hiking and bicycling ac- The upcoming series will focus for 21st-century living, contempo- presented a donation on June 2 to The In New Jersey, The Arc of Union ceives funding from the Friends of tivities, most of which are held in on the things that people worship rary Christian music, safe children’s Arc of Union County. The students, County provides an array of programs the Fanwood Memorial Library. central and northern New Jersey. and will explore whether individu- programs, food and opportunities who make weekly chapel offerings to and services enabling individuals with Special family events under the Membership dues are $10 per year. als are as fanatical about showing for fellowship. For more informa- help others in the community, elected disabilities, and their families, to re- banner Monday Nights Are Special Prospective members are invited to their praise for God as they are tion, visit Oasis-Church-NJ.com to donate their offerings from April alize full, productive and enhanced will take place at 7 p.m. They will try out the club by participating in up about showing off their house, or if online or call (732) 406-7821. and May to The Arc. lives. For more information about include “Beauty and the Beast Sto- to three outings before joining. To The Arc of Union County is recog- The Arc or to volunteer, contact rytellers” on July 12; “The Turtle request a complimentary schedule, nized for supporting and empowering Debbie Dreher at (973) 315-0060 or Stage Show,” featuring author and which includes a new member appli- individuals with developmental dis- [email protected]. turtle specialist Steve Woyce with cation, call Union County Parks at abilities from “Golden Books to Golden live turtles and tortoises, on July 19; (908) 527-4900. Years.” Tanner Bell, The Arc’s Ambas- St. John’s Announces sador of Goodwill 2010 and currently a student at The Arc Kohler School, was Women’s Day Events DIVE IN FOR in attendance to receive the check. SCOTCH PLAINS – The Women’s The $250 donation will help support Ministry of St. John’s Baptist Church the playground fence project at The will hold its annual Pre-Women’s Day Arc Bright Beginnings Child Develop- Weekend services on Saturday, June ment Center in Cranford, which pres- 27, beginning with an Early Morning AN ently serves 72 children of all abilities Prayer and Morning Glory Hour from from many area communities. 7 to 8 a.m. A Fellowship Luncheon “We are thrilled with how commu- will take place at 11:30 a.m. nity-focused Redeemer Lutheran stu- On Sunday, June 28, the Reverend dents are, and look forward to walk- Maria Crompton, an assistant minis- EDUCATION... ing with them on their Mission Walk ter at the First Congregation Chris- as part of The Arc’s ‘Fifth Annual tian Church in Irvington, will be the Step Up for The Arc’ on September guest speaker at the 10 a.m. service. 25,” said Natalie Krauser McCarthy, St. John’s Special Women’s Day RUNNING FOR LIFE…Six Westfield residents participated on June 13 in the Lake Placid, N.Y. Half Marathon (13.1 miles) as members of The Leukemia and The Arc’s Development and Special Choir will provide the music. All Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training. More than $530,000 was raised by Events Program Manager. For more women are asked to wear white. New Jersey runners, with close to $15,000 from the Westfield group. All the information about the walk/run, visit The public is invited to attend. St. Westfielders finished the race, with Sandra Alfano taking first out of all LLS New firstgiving.com/arc-union. John’s Baptist Church is located at Jersey finishers. Jim Brucia was the top fundraiser out of the 28 New Jersey Founded in 1949, The Arc of Union 2387 Morse Avenue in Scotch Plains. participants. The other Westfield runners were Peter Anderson (not pictured), County is a non-profit organization For more information, call the church Amy Anderson, Julia DeSantis and Judy Brucia. The team ran in honor of Jean that serves more than 1,000 children at (908) 232-6972. 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By DAVID B. CORBIN ball and he is a great teammate. That catcher Josh Cocuzzella followed to Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times is first and foremost, and the fact that prevent the Raiders from scoring. Flame throwing Eric Donohue he throws 70 miles-per-hour doesn’t Donohue’s other walk was to Raider tossed a one-hitter, walked two and hurt at all either,” Cougar Head Coach leadoff hitter George Leichtling in struck out four as the Cranford 12- Joe Norton said. the first inning. year-old baseball team defeated “He threw a great game. He threw The young Cougars showed a re- Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 10-0, in the ball hard, and I think our kids markable similarity to this year’s four innings in the first round of the were a little bit intimidated. They let Cranford High School team players, Cal Ripken District 12 Tournament it get in their heads, and that’s what who were absolute terrors on the base at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on we talked about right down the line, paths and finished their champion- June 21. so that won’t happen again,” Raider ship season with 111 steals. Playing “Eric is a great kid. He’s got great Head Coach Glenn Deusch said. “He with a 70-foot distance between bases, physical tools. Obviously, he is a big [Donohue] changes the game the young Cougars had eight stolen kid. He’s 5’8” and 140 pounds. More quickly.” bases in the game. importantly, he’s a great kid. He picks Julian Korduba was the only “We get it from them [high school]. David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times everyone up. He loves playing base- Raider to get a hit off Donohue when They don’t get it from us. We like to JUST GETTING BACK IN TIME…Westfield Blue’s Jamie Petrovcik, white uniform, gets back to first just in time before he chopped a single past short with play aggressively. They are 12-year- Westfield White first baseman Jack Cerria, blue uniform, can make the tag. See more Photos of Game Griffen Whitmer, who was on first old kids. They love to have fun. What base with a walk, with two outs in they love about playing 50-70 is they CHIRICELLA GETS 2 HITS, 3 RBI; WAGNER 3-RUN 3B on Cougar Online page 3: the second inning. A heads-up play can lead and steal, so we let them run for a putout to first base by Cougar CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 WF Blue Plates 5 in 5th; Tops WF White Baseball 10s, 10-5

By DAVID B. CORBIN from Miles Brancatella and Matt “The boys played very well. Every Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times Fienberg. All around, it was just a at bat is always different. You never Momentum swings finally tilted in great team effort. They played sound know what they are going to do. It the direction of the Westfield Blue 10- fundamental baseball,” Westfield always depends on pitchers,” year-old baseball team in its 10-5 vic- Blue coach Ron Brancatella said. Westfield White coach Pat Pucciarelli tory over Westfield White in New Provi- “That is the emphasis, for them to said. “You can always teach the kids dence Green League action at Gumbert learn and execute, and we did it.” the fundamentals of the game, but 2 Field in Westfield on June 17. because they are so young, they tend Westfield Blue quickly rebounded Because Westfield Blue was the to go with those mood swings. As a from a tough season opener, and got home team, it wore white uniforms coach, that’s the hardest thing, to key defensive plays from outfielders and Westfield White wore the blue keep them in a positive light, to get Jack Johnson and Kevin Fuller, and uniforms. them to realize, if you keep playing infielders Mile Brancatella, Ryan the game, you never know what’s Chiricella and Matt Feinberg that Westfield White gained the mo- going to happen.” squashed a few Westfield White ral- mentum early with two runs in the The Blue managed to receive 13 lies. Starting pitcher Tyler Hoffman, top of the first, but the Blue came walks and totaled six hits. The most Hunter Hagen and Chiricella com- back with a run in the second and four dramatic hit was the bases-loaded bined for six strikeouts, while allow- in third to shift the momentum. The three-run triple off the metal stick of ing seven hits and seven walks. White fought back with three in the Chris Wagner in the third inning. “Fuller and Johnson! All-around fourth to recapture the lead, but the Chiricella was influential with an RBI fielders, great defense! They hit their Blue answered loudly with five runs single in the third and a two-run single cutoffs. We got good pitching from in the bottom of the inning to capture in the fifth just before Rory McGovern Tyler Hoffman, Hunter Hagen and the momentum for good. followed with a two-run single. Hagan Ryan Chirichella, great infielding went 1-for-2 with a run scored, and

David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times See more Photos of Game Fuller singled and scored twice. NAILING A POTENTIAL THIEF…Raiders third baseman Chris Duffy gets the throw from pitcher Connor McSherry in Probitas Verus Honos on Cougar Online page 3: Hoffman scored once and had an time to nail Cougar Pat Knight attempting to steal third in the third inning of the Cal Ripken District 12 Tournament. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Page 10 Thursday, June 24, 2010 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION HOFFMAN, ANDERSON ALL-UC 1ST TEAM Lady Blue Devils Reach Higher Level in Lacrosse

By DAVID B. CORBIN said. “Ultimately, our wins and losses Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times combined to reflect a .500 record. One Tri-captains Val Hoffman, Anna highlight was the team’s character. Powell both midfielders and defender They really seemed to work well to- Monica D’Amico helped the gether throughout the entire season.” Westfield High School (WHS) girls Hoffman netted 48 goals and 20 lacrosse team achieve a higher level assists, along with 50 ground balls. of play in the face of a tough sched- She was selected First Team All-Union ule. The Lady Blue Devils qualified County and First Team All-Confer- for the state tournament, advanced to ence. Junior defenseman Taylor Ander- the semifinal round of the Union son, who had 15 ground balls, was David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times County Tournament (UCT) and fin- also named First Team All-Confer- AWAITING THE THROW…Raider shortstop Michael Benson awaits the throw ished with a 10-10 record. ence and First Team All-Union County. WIDE RIGHT…Westfield Blue first baseman Chris Wagner (White uniform) as Cougar Jamie Brawley steals second in the third inning. Seven of the Blue Devils’ wins Freshman attacker Courtney watches the ball sail wide right as Westfield White runner Andrew Milstein, No. were literally blowouts, beginning Weisse led the team with 54 goals 27, scampers to first. Weichert with a season-opening 20-8, trounc- and 25 assists. She was selected Hon- Weichert ing of Governor Livingston (GL). In orable Mention All-Conference and Cranford Foils Raiders, 10-0, that game, freshman midfielder/at- Second Team All-Union County. WF Blue Plates 5 in 5th; Tops tacker Elizabeth Cusick tied a WHS Cusick, who netted 51 goals, 20 as- record with 10 points. sists and 23 ground balls, was named In Cal Ripken District Tourney Next, the Blue Devils swamped Honorable Mention All-Conference WF White Baseball 10s, 10-5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 New Providence, 17-6, and Montclair and Second Team All-County. Kimberley, 20-9. After a close 9-7, Sophomore defensive midfielder CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 and have fun,” said coach Norton. Knight doubled, singled, scored twice loss to Morristown Beard, they Caroline Bertoni scooped 25 ground RBI, Jason Glickstein scored twice, tapped an RBI infield single, Ryan “At this level, with 70-foot bases, it’s and swiped a pair of bases. Joe Norton crushed Cranford, 17-2, then humbled balls and was selected Honorable Feinberg walked twice, and Jamie Palmer had an RBI and shortstop Eric really hard to throw kids out. The had an RBI double and an RBI single, Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 14-2, in the Mention All-Conference and Second Petrovcik had an RBI, while Johnson Bebel, who had a banner defensive pitcher has got to do a good job of and scored once. Jamie Brawley (RBI, first round of the UCT. Another tight Team All-County. Junior defenseman and Brancatella each scored once. evening, singled, stole two bases and keeping them close. The catcher’s run scored) and Sean Leahey each 9-7 loss, this time to Bernards fol- Emma Partridge scooped 17 ground “We got a big hit from Chris Wagner scored. John O’Hern, who walked got to have a really good gun. We singled, and Cocuzzella singled, lowed, but the Lady Devils rebounded balls and was named Honorable Men- with the bases loaded and two outs, and scored once, was robbed of a run- don’t have the fastest team in the walked and scored once. Nick Ballas to thump the GL Highlanders, 14-6, tion All-County, and sophomore which is always a money situation. scoring single in the second inning by world, but we work on base running cracked a two-run, ground rule in the UCT quarterfinals. midfielder Emily Gretsky scooped We had a tough game in our first Chiricella and once again in the fourth a lot. We work on getting good jumps. double. After bowing to Oak Knoll in the 24 ground balls and was named Hon- outing, and the boys really rallied by Fuller. Steven Warren singled and We work on sliding away from the Several hit-and-run plays also UCT semifinals, the Lady Blue Devils orable Mention All-County behind themselves, hit the ball well, scored once, Andrew Milstein and tag. You don’t need to be super fast to worked to the Cougars’ advantage, dropped a string of three close games to Next year’s team captains, Ander- ran the bases well and played good David Sprung each scored once, and be a good base runner.” especially the final one off the bat of Kent Place (14-12), Millburn (13-12) son, Partridge and Ally Rose will be fundamental baseball. That’s all you Ryan Bebel drew a walk. Dean The Cougars also provided plenty Norton in the bottom of the fourth, and Montgomery (12-9, state game). working with a wealth of young but can ask for from 10-year-olds,” coach Pucciarelli reached first on an error of offense with 12 hits, which in- which drove in the 10th run to end the Their final game of the season was a experienced talent and expect even Brancatella said. that allowed O’Hern to score in the cluded two home runs and four game via 10-run rule. 19-7 disjointing of Union Cathloic. better results. Westfield White had seven hits. first. Cerria, Colin Daniel and Milstein doubles. Brandon Kane (2-for-2, 2 “They like to do stuff that they see “Overall, this was a developmental “We have a lot of young talent in Jack Cerria had an RBI single in the shared the pitching duties. runs scored) crushed a three-run the high school team do. We work on season for our team. We established a our program. We will continue to set first, was robbed of extra bases by Both coaches had a policy of rotat- homer to give the Cougars a 3-0 lead hit-and-run. We try to hit behind the higher level of expectations and com- higher expectations each season and Johnson’s catch in the third and added ing the kids to play a lot of different at the end of one inning. Donohue, runner and keep it fun for them,” peted against a tough schedule,” Blue work to achieve each goal we set,” a single in the fifth. Drew Ortize went positions. who finished 2-for-2 with three runs coach Norton said. Devil Head Coach Brendan Hickey coach Hickey said. 2-for-2 with a walk, Casey Scheper “That’s important to me. I think scored and a walk, hammered a solo Sc. Pl.-Fanwood 000 0 0 they learn the game. Through other blast in the five-run third inning. Pat Cranford 305 2 10 positions, they understand what they Blue Devils, Raiders Get All-UC, Group Honors have to do at certain times,” coach MEET YOUR WEICHERT, REALTORS® NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIALIST Brancatella said. Scotch Plains-Fanwood High Younger were named to the All-UC Cusick and Azwad Turner made the “Westfield has a great policy. It’s School senior Joe D’Annunzio, and Second and Third Team, respectively. All-UC Third Team. mandatory that all the kids get to play Kathleen Gwaldis Westfield High School boys tennis In tennis, the Blue Devils won the In girls track, Raider Camile four innings. 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By DAVID B. CORBIN walked, scored once and swiped a Pansini struck out four, walked five, Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times base. Sean Mikovits hit the ball hard allowed three hits and no earned runs Aggressive base running when the in all three at bats. in three innings. Reliever Varano al- opportunity knocked and a fabulous, Nick Mink led Long Hills’ offense lowed four hits, a walk and three leaping catch by centerfielder with a two-run double, a walk and earned runs, while fanning one. Long Jonathan Stanton that led to a double two runs scored. Brian Leon had a Hill starter Schellhorn allowed four play in the bottom of the sixth inning pair of singles, two stolen bases and hits and three walks, while fanning earned the Long Hills 11U baseball a run scored. Robbie Tedesco singled, one. Reliever Silvestri yielded five team a 7-5 victory over the Westfield scored once and swiped two bases. hits and a walk, while striking out White at Gumbert 2 Field in Westfield Chris Lopez had an RBI single and a three. on June 16. stolen base. Chris Galante and War- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times SCORING THE THIRD RUN…Westfield Blue’s Kyle McIntyre scores the third run of the first inning as Union catcher Frank Weber awaits the throw. Westfield Blue won, 15-7, on June 18. McINTYRE RAPS 4 RBI; FURST, ZREBIEC GO 3-FOR-3 Westfield Blue 12s Get Jump On Union, 15-7, in Baseball

By DAVID B. CORBIN 18. The Westfield Blue jumped to a ting and aggressive base running. In Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times 12-0 lead, but Union battled in the his three innings on the mound, Spirit of youth baseball turned what later half to make it a 15-7 ballgame. Glassman retired nine of the 11 Little initially appeared to be a rout into a Two of the reasons for Westfield Farmers that he faced, striking out contest between the Union 12U base- Blue’s big jump to a 12-0 lead were seven and yielding only an infield ball team and the Westfield Blue at the effectiveness of starting pitcher single, while the other reached safely Gumbert 1 Field in Westfield on June Jared Glassman and a barrage of hit- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 on a throwing error. and Furst poked an RBI single in the they were back in the game,” coach “It’s all about pitching. Jared bottom of the inning to make the Monaghan said. Glassman threw strikes, and the guys score 14-5, then Petrovcik added an Union third baseman Antonio made plays in the field,” Westfield RBI in the fifth, but Union gave it one Geraldi made a fine scoop for a putout Blue coach John Monaghan said. last try in the sixth when Roberson in the fourth inning for the first out Westfield Blue totaled 13 hits and added an RBI and Cory Longville and shortstop Pittius made a spec- 10 of them came in that 12-0 scoring yanked an RBI single. Union finished tacular diving grab for the third out. run. Kyle McIntyre drilled a two-run the game with nine stolen bases. “Jake Pittius has been around with double and a two-run single. Jake “Stealing bases is how we score our us for three years, and he’s probably Furst went 3-for-3, including a two- runs. We have had the most stolen bases one of our top-3 players,” coach run double and an RBI single, and then any other team in our league,” Lamotta said. “It was our first game scored twice. Devin Zrebiec also went Union coach Tom Lamotta said. of the season, so we are just trying to 3-for-3, scored once and had an RBI. “Absolutely! They fought back. get the cobwebs out, and we will Owen Monaghan (single, walk) and They had a couple of opportunities. definitely win a few. We worked with Jack Petrovcik each had a pair of We walked a couple of guys. They these kids for the last four years. RBI, while Jack Curry (single), Liam came up with a couple of big hits, and These are handpicked for this week, Loughlin and Eddie Encinas (2 walks and we are really looking forward to and hit-by-pitch) each scored twice. playing the rest of the season.” Fred Lecomte for The Westfield Leader and The Times See more Photos of Game MAKING IT SAFELY TO THIRD BASE…Raider Robert Fallo slides safely into third base and Westfield White third Jake Kurstadt ripped an RBI double, Union 000 502 7 baseman “Rudy” Connor Root prepares to catch the ball. Westfield White defeated the Raiders, 15-8, on June 18. walked twice and scored once. on Cougar Online page 3: Westfield Blue 723 21x 15 Glassman singled and scored, Harry Wachtel drew three walks and scored WOLF LINES 3-RUN DOUBLE, HOOEY 2-RUN DOUBLE once, and Zach Campbell singled and scored, walked and was hit-by-a- pitch. Justin Yoon scored once. Long Hill 11s Stun WF White “We have had these kids for four or WF White 11s Top SPF, 15-8, five years, and they swing the bats. We are aggressive. It’s a lot of fun In Youth Baseball League, 7-5 when you play good baseball,” coach CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Monaghan said. “You got to be ready In N. Providence League Ball to run. You got to be ready to react. Westfield took a 1-0 lead in the seemed to be for extra bases, but We have a lot of good players, a lot of bottom of the second when Liddy Stanton made his leaping stab and good sports, so we are proud of them.” walked, moved to second on a hit-and- fired to second to get the double play. By FRED LECOMTE Geissel both walked and Mueller driving them in once they got there. Highlighted by McIntyre’s and run fielder’s choice, stole third and Galante sealed the win with a diving Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times hacked a two-run double to right cen- Also smart running! The kids know Furst’s two-run doubles, Westfield scored on an error. Long Hill answered infield snag. Proving that a friendly rivalry could ter. Westfield (1-1) immediately coun- where and how to go, and that makes Blue plated seven runs on six hits in with three in the third. Tedseco tapped “That was a highlight play, and I bring out the best in teams, the tered with four runs in the bottom of a big difference.” the bottom of the first inning. a bad-hop single off the chin of second hope we see a few more of those this Westfield White and Scotch Plains- the inning on Hooey’s and Moriarity’s The Blue Devils also got some McIntyre added his two-run single in baseman Mike Echausse. Schellhorn season. That was certainly the best Fanwood 11-year-old baseball teams two-run hits. strong and key defensive plays that the second to give the Westfield Blue walked. Tedesco alertly scored when play we’ve seen all year. Jonathan met face-to-face in the New Provi- In the second, the Raiders plated a kept the momentum on their side. a 9-0 lead then Monaghan, Petrovcik Mink’s grounder to short caused a Stanton! He was all heads-up. He knew dence Green League at Gumbert Field run when Miller ripped a single, ad- “In our first game of the season, and Zrebiec each added an RBI in the throwing error. Schellhorn and Mink where to throw the ball after he made in Westfield on June 18 and the home vanced and later scored. Westfield there was a lot of throwing the ball third inning. seized the opportunity to score on the catch,” said coach Heller, who team emerged with a 15-8 victory. exploded for five runs in the bottom of away. Today, we did not panic on hits, Union finally got the opportunity to another throwing error. added, “Chris Galante! He even had Westfield starting pitcher Jared the inning to grab a 9-3 lead. Rodriguez and I think the highlight was that nice get runners on base in the fourth in- “We’ve taught our boys to play the presence of mind to say I got it.” Hooey and relievers Dan Audino, spanked an RBI single and strutted out in the fourth inning when we had ning and, with the help of five walks very aggressively around the base “That play in the bottom of the Kevin Campanello and Kobi Wolf home with the pods full, and Wolf the relay from the leftfielder to the and some very aggressive base run- paths. We want the defense make the sixth, we have a person on second and demonstrated their control by yield- bashed a three-run double up the shortstop to the guy at third to get him ning, they started chipping away at play, and let it be an out if it is an out,” nobody out. If he doesn’t make that ing just six hits, while combining for middle. In the third, the Raiders added out and stop the extra runs from com- Westfield Blue’s lead. Jordan Roberson Long Hill Coach Scott Heller said. catch, it’s 7-6, nobody out, a guy on eight strikeouts. a run on Geissel’s single; however, ing in,” coach Scalera said. “The third got the five-run rally started with an Westfield plated two in the fourth second. He made it. She got a little The Little Blue Devils had some Westfield upped the score to 12-4, baseman stuck with the ball, threw RBI double to centerfield. Jake Pittius to make the score, 4-3. Meiselman too far off second, and he doubled her success offensively. Hooey (2-run highlighted by Root’s RBI double and him out at first, so they played a solid and Frank Weber added an RBI and singled and scored on Kessler’s chop- up. That was the pivotal play in the double, stole home), Zack Rodriques O’Brien’s two-run ground-rule double. game. Good defense wins you a lot of Chris Hutchinson slapped a two-run per over second. Kessler stole third game,” coach Ripperger said. (2-for-2, RBI), Wolf (3 RBI, double, The Raiders mustered two runs in games.” single to make the score 12-5. and alertly scored on a passed ball, “I think they were a little tight. run scored), Mike Moriarity (2 RBI) the fourth and added two in the fifth, “We gave up too many walks. That Kurstadt ripped and RBI double but Long Hill extended its lead to 7- They were nervous, but they didn’t Mike Mohr-Ramirez (2-run double), highlighted by Ruzek and Rash’s was the big deciding factor in the 3 in the fifth with four runs on three break, and I was very proud of them,” “Rudy” Connor Root (RBI double) doubles. Three Blue Devils scuffed game, as well as some of the errors in Reading is Good For You hits, a throwing error, three stolen coach Heller said. and O’Brien (2-run double) led the the plate in the bottom of fifth when the field. We were able to score some bases and a walk. Varano and Pansini “Overall, for our first game, I felt White’s 10-hit attack. Wolf scored with the bases loaded runs, but you make errors in the field ripped RBI singles to tighten the score we pitched pretty well. We didn’t Adam Miller was the Raider start- and Mohr-Ramirez timed a pitch for and you walk people on base, you’re to 7-5 after five innings. walk too many people. Our hitters ing pitcher and the relievers were two runs. not going to win a game,” Raider Head “Two innings, the third and the [hit] a little too many groundballs. Brody Rash, George Mueller and “Offensively, we were going after Coach George Mueller said. “We got fifth, we were a little loose in the [They were] certainly a little rusty,” Bobby Nugent. Rash and Mueller the good pitches, and we were patient some clutch hits from the bottom of field. It cost us two or three runs. We said coach Ripperger. “Next game, each tagged a two-run double, Vin on the bad ones. We tell the kids, ‘get the order, which is really good, and gave them a couple of extra outs in we play Union, and I think we are Ruzek rapped a two-run single, Tim on base anyhow, any way’. That hap- that is something that we can build on. each inning,” Westfield coach John going to come out a lot stronger, a lot Geissel added an RBI single and pens and then good things happen It’s only the second game of the sea- Ripperger said. more aggressive, and I think we will Miller scored a run. with that,” said Westfield Head Coach son, so there’s a lot of games to play.” In the sixth, Liddy reached first and make a lot better contact.” sped to second on a throwing error, The 1-1 Raiders jumped out with Fred Scalera. “We saw a lot of guys Sc. Pl-Fanwood 211 220 8 goleader.com/subscribe Long Hill 003 040 7 two runs in the first inning. Rash and get on base, and then we saw people Westfield White 453 03x 15 then Kessler lashed a drive that Westfield 010 220 5

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Federbusch reclaiming the top spot out the top five after Andrew Skalkin Don Montefusco (3-for-4) and Bob RBI) and Larry Esoldo’s pitching led with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Tuyen Diep. dropped due to inactivity. Lieberman (3-for-3) led the Crew. Renda’s. Michael Conte climbedup the ladder Diep maintained the most active Linda’s I 10, Magnolia Auto 7 TLC 21, Nicolina Pizza 3 to the second position with wins over lead with 15 matches played. The Linda’s Steve Lerner, Joe Sarica, Bob Lorincz (3 hits, HR, walk, 4 Chris Bonn (6-0, 6-2), Tom Bauer (6- next reporting period will end July 4. Keith McDede, Steve Adase, Mac RBI, 4 runs scored) and Fred Joyce Taylor, Sales Associate 1, 6-1), Joe Buda (6-4, 6-0) and Diep Please report all match activity to Kowalski and pitcher Tom Siano had DiMartino’s pitching led TLC. (6-2, 6-3). Robert Errazo kept the Richard Pardo at multi-hit games. Linda’s turned four Creative 12, The Office 4 908-233-6417, Direct third position with wins over Joshua [email protected]. For more on double plays. Creative plated six in the sixth. Bill 1977—2009 Suri (6-3, 6-0) and Diep (6-4, 6-2). information about the WTA and a Awnings 11, Molly Maguire’s 4 Dougherty (4 hits), Marv Scherb NJAR Circle of Excellence membership application please visit Awnings scored six runs in the sixth. (HR), Tom Lombardi, Karl WTA Mixed Doubles www.westfieldnj.com/wta/ Brian Granstrand (3-for-3) led Awnings. Grossmann and Nick Lehotsky (three Tennis Ladder Results: 1. Federbusch(3)* 22. Olga Yee (3)* Pitcher Bill Hinkle kept Awnings score- hits each) led Creative. 2. Mike Conte (9)* 23. M. Manders(3)* less for three innings and legged out a Kilkenny 17, Associated Auto 1 Public Open House Sunday, June 27th 1 — 4 pm There were no changes in the third 3. Rob Errazo(4)* 24. Jeff Brinker (3)* triple. Glen Zuhl had two hits. Paul Brody, Donny White, Dave reporting period. The next reporting 4. Tuyen Diep(15)* 25. E. Bronander(1)* 5. Joe Buda (4)* 26. Nate Weiss (4)* Contact Lens 17, D&K 15 Bell and Pat LoPiccolo each had two period ends on July 4. Please report 6. Bouchouev(3)* 27. P. Magierski(1)* Lensman Pete Byer boomed three hits for Associated. all match activity to Richard Pardo at 7. Rich Pardo (7)* 28. Andy Ross (2)* homers. Nicolina Pizza 13, Associated 1 [email protected]. There is still 8. A. Skalkin (3) 29. Steven Lee (2)* SMC 22, Liberty Lighting 3 Associated’s Lee Haliniewski, time to join the WTA Doubles Lad- 9. Weldon Chin(3)* 30. Nate Suri (3)* 10. Josh Suri(11)* 31. G. Steinfield (4) Walter Serafyn (2 triples, double), Robert Maley and Dave Levine had der. Please visit 11. Tom Bauer (1)* 32. S. Berman (2)* Bill Dugan (2 doubles, triple) led multi-hits. www.westfieldnj.com/wta/ 12. Chris Bonn(6)* 33. Sravan Emany SMC. John Amato, John Symczak, Creative 15, TLC 14 index.html to download a member- 13. F. Adriaens(5)* 34. R.- Harry Streep and Paul Levenberg also Creative led 13-4. Creative scored ship application and to learn more Lafemina(6)* 14. T. Bigosinski(5)*35. Mike Muroff(1)* had multi-hit games. the winning run on an infield hit and about the WTA. 15. Daniel Ives(3)* 36. Brett Zweiback Molly Maguire’s 8, Sun Tavern 3 singles from Bob Failla and Nick 1. Christ Farella/Josh Suri (5) 16. Chris Miller(7)* 37. Don Beal Charlie Wischusen (3-for-3), John Lehotsky. Bob Lorincz (4 hits), and 2. Manny Erlich/Mike Muroff (2) 17. M. Rappoport(1)* 38. Don Dohm Hartnett (2 hits, double), Dave John Silva, Oscar Harrison, Wayne 3. Weldon Chin/Rich Pardo (2) 18. Chris Farella(5)* 39. Mitch Mankin 4. Peter Lyons/Yun Won Cho (1) 19. Mike Gonella 40. Joe Donnolo Drechsel (2 hits, triple) and pitcher Michael, Ray Meigs and Fred 5. John Mancini/Jim Oslislo 20. David Ferio(6)* 41. Manny Erlich Bill Hinkle (2 hits) sparked the DiMartino (3 hits each) led TLC. 6. Joe Armstrong/Dave Cappiello 21. D. Loffredo(3) 42. David Basile Mollies. Barman Ed McColgan Marv Scherb, Tom Lombardi, Karl 7. Irondi Aliche/Michael McGlynn 43. Francisco Franco pitched well and received some ex- Grossmann, Bob Failla (3BH), Nick ( ) cumulative matches played ( ) cumulative matches played *Denotes match played in period *Match played in reporting period ceptional defense from second Lehotsky, Ray Cozzarelli and Larry baseman Chris Moore and third Berra (3 hits each) led Creative. baseman Jim Price. Kilkenny 7, The Office 0 (forfeit) 520 Carleton Road Westfield, NJ WTA Mixed Masters PUBLIC NOTICE An enchanting wrap-around porch sets a charming tone TOWN OF WESTFIELD that continues inside with hardwood floors, moldings, Tennis Ladder Results: PLANNING BOARD John Mancini took the top spot CHANGE OF MEETING DATE wainscoting, high ceilings, abundant windows and recent with an 8-1 win over Joe Donnolo. In compliance with N.J.S.A. 10:4-8D updates. The foyer, living room and formal dining room Peter Lee slid by Don Dohm in a (Open Public Meetings Act), the Westfield with fireplace sparkle. The updated eat-in kitchen features tiebreaker, 8-7 (7-3). Janice Honymar Planning Board wishes to advise the public of a the following meeting date changes. granite counters, stainless steel appliances and a nearby lost to Donnolo, 8-1, and Lee, 8-1. The regular monthly meeting scheduled The next reporting period ends on for July 5, 2010 has been moved to July 8, powder room & den. The 2nd floor offers a master bed- July 4. 2010 and the regular monthly meeting scheduled for August 2, 2010 has been room with new bath, two more bedrooms and another up- John Mancini (1)* moved to August 11, 2010. Joe Donnolo (3)* The meetings will be held in Council dated bath. Incredibly inviting, the 3rd floor has a family Peter Lee (5)* Chambers in the Westfield Municipal Build- room, 4th bedroom and an office. A rec room, updated Don Dohm (2)* ing, 425 East Broad Street, Westfield, Janice Honymar (2)* New Jersey at 7:30 p.m. gas fired furnace & central air-conditioning, fenced yard, Mike McGlynn (2) Applications and plans to be considered Nancy Freundlich at these meetings will be on file in the office lovely landscaping and a “near everything” location, en- ( ) nbr matches played of the Planning Office, 959 North Avenue, hance this idyllic setting. Presented for $799,000. Dir: * played a match this period West, Westfield, New Jersey and may be MATCH PLAY: seen Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to South to Boulevard , left onto Ross, right on Carleton 6/18 Lee vs Honymar, 8-1 4:30 p.m. QUALIFING FOR NATIONALS…The North Jersey Panthers qualified for the 6/15 Donnolo vs Honymar, 8-1 Kris McAloon 6/11 Lee vs Dohm, 8-7 (7-3) Secretary, Westfield Planning Board ASA U14 Nationals by placing second in the Fathers Day Challenge in Readington. 6/8 Mancini vs Dohm, 8-1 Pictured, left to right, are: front row, Natalie Tupper, Elena Scarano, Lizzie Fox, 1 T - 6/24/10, The Leader Fee: $21.93 Molly Jennings and Lauren Schmeider; back row, coach Bud Jeanette, Isabel Chin, Michell Kostyak, Nora Cunningham, Sara Seitz, coach Chuck Seitz, Ashley See it all on the web in color . . . Abbott and aunt Gerty. Not pictured, Colleen Gallagher. www.goleader.com Westfield Office · 600 North Avenue, West · 908-233-0065 Kimberley Aslanian Haley

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The weekly column written by local high school students AP Exams: College Advantage Or Simply Just Another Test? By Mariel Kennedy prove their mastery of the subjects Specially Written or The Westfield Leader and the Times they have studied. Yet, with the amount Along with final exams and col- preparation that students must execute lege-entrance tests, many high school for college entrance, do they really students faced additional standard- need to take another round of tests? ized testing with their Advanced By better understanding college Placement (AP) courses. These admission criteria, a student can real- U14 GIRLS CHAMPIONS…The Westfield U14 girls Team Fearless won the courses allow high school students to ize how Advanced Placement courses Inter-County Youth Soccer League championship on June 19 with a 2-1, penalty take introductory college level are regarded when they are in a pool shootout over an undefeated Cranford team. Pictured, left to right, are: front row, PONY LEAGUE CHAMPS…The A’s recently won the Westfield Pony League courses as part of their high school of applicants being considered for title. Pictured, left to right, are: front row, Danny Mitchell, Danny DoCampo, Ballboy PJ Meyo, Kelly O’Connor and Emily Schuman; middle row, Julie curriculum. AP courses entail addi- admission. Brownstone, Melanie Nettler, Jordan Lukowiak, Elena Arida and Lauren Brendan Curry, Jack Bunting, Mark Hartzell and Ben Verchick; back row, Jack Echausse; back row, Oliva Windorf, Amy West, Margaret Meyo, Olivia Lavelle, tional reading, in-depth analysis and Scott Atherton, assistant director Rose, Coach John Githens, Andrew Githens, Bryon Lessner, David Kane, Colin Carli Arena, Kristen Ryan, Zoe Federbusch, Julia Wanfried, Caroline Meyo, involve more course material at a of admissions at Middlebury College Dursee, Brian Githens, Quinn Dursee and Coach Rich Dursee. Missing from the Shea Fitzpatrick and Nora Moriarty. In back are coaches Pete Echausse, Mike higher level than high school honors in Vermont, gives an important in- picture are Matt Smoot and Coach Matt Smoot. Schuman and Chuck Meyo and trainer Chris Hays. courses. sight. “We look favorably upon stu- In May of each year, students na- dents taking AP or other such courses PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE tionwide take AP Examinations to offered by their school. Middlebury, like many colleges and universities TOWN OF WESTFIELD variance to retain both businesses in one PUBLIC NOTICE in the U.S., evaluates a candidate for BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT building. TOWN OF WESTFIELD The applicant is seeking bulk variance admission using many criteria, one Notice is hereby given that Westfield BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT relief from Sections 17.06, 17.07 and 17.08 Board of Adjustment adopted Resolutions being the degree of difficulty of cur- of the Land Use Ordinance. Ordinance The Board of Adjustment of the Town of at its June 14, 2010 meeting for the follow- riculum. We like to see that a student requires paving, curbing and striping for Westfield, New Jersey will meet on July ing applications heard at its May 10, 2010 has challenged himself or herself by parking for the car rental business. No 12, 2010 in the Council Chambers at the meeting. paving, curbing or striping is proposed. Municipal Building, 425 East Broad Street, taking some of the more challenging Joseph Buontempo, 1016-1018 & Section 17.02C9 allows the minimum park- Westfield, New Jersey at 7:30 p.m. to hear courses the school has to offer. In 1020 South Avenue West; Applicant is ing requirement to be determined by the and consider the following appeal for bulk some cases, that may be AP or IB seeking an extension of preliminary and Board, however, the number of parking (c) variances(s) from the requirements of courses. Some schools do not offer final major site plan approval with vari- spaces required by the Board shall not be the Westfield Land Use Ordinance so as ances. Original approval granted January less than the number required by the zone. to permit New York SMSA Limited Part- AP courses, and, of course, we would 14, 2008; extended to January 14, 2010; The required number of parking spaces by nership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (the “Appli- not hold that against a student; we extended to July 1, 2010. Extension ap- zone is 29 spaces. Existing are 35 spaces. cant”), regarding the property known as evaluate a candidate’s strength of proved. The applicant is seeking a variance from 109 North Avenue West, Block 3103, Lot curriculum in the context of that Section 11.17D, permitted uses and struc- 12 (the “Property”) to erect on the East Premier Communities, LLC (Assignee tures. Any use or structure other than those Elevation of its existing store building one student’s school’s offerings.” of Millenium Properties), 1464 East uses or structures permitted in subsection new externally-illuminated wall sign of Broad Street; Applicant is seeking pre- Along with AP courses, Mr. A, B, or C of Section 11.27 is prohibited. Car +28.53 square feet and to switch and liminary and final site plan approval to Atherton acknowledges in his state- rental is not permitted in Sections A, B, or C relocate the existing North Elevation illu- WORKING A HALF NELSON…Matt Pindilli a third grader at Franklin School permit the construction of four (4) ment the IB (or International Bacca- of Section 11.27. The applicant is seeking minated wall sign of +30.61 square feet to townhouse style condominium units within works a half nelson on Westfield High School wrestling Head Coach Glen Kurz. a variance from Section 17.13C Use Re- the West Elevation and the existing West laureate) courses as advanced high two (2) principal structures. Application As part of Louise Loffredo’s annual 15 Minutes of Fame Day, students are asked strictions. There shall be no parking of Elevation illuminated wall sign of +15.42 approved with conditions. school curriculum. While some high to demonstrate something they are good at. Matt, who has wrestled for the motor vehicles used in any business on square feet to the North Elevation (sign schools offer college level coursework Westfield PAL since he was in kindergarten, invited coach Kurz, who gave up his Joe Young, 425 Summit Avenue; Ap- side during regular business hours, except dimensions do not include backers). with AP classes, other high schools plicant seeks permission to construct a for short-term parking for loading and un- Applicant is requesting variance relief free period in order to do a presentation on wrestling. garage contrary to the following sections loading, unless specific parking spaces are from the following sections of the Land offer college level coursework using of the Land Use Ordinance: §13.01G1a - provided for such vehicles in excess of the Use/Zoning Ordinance: 1) § 16.04E1, the IB curriculum. They are equally For accessory structures less than 500 spaces required by ordinance. Applicant which permits one (1) exterior sign at the considered as advanced opportuni- Westfield’s Greene square feet, Ordinance requires side and proposes to comply with the Sign Ordi- main entrance. Presently there are two ties for high school students. rear setbacks of 5 feet. Proposed is 3.5 nance. The applicant does not proposed wall signs. The proposal is to switch the Graduates Haverford If AP or IB courses are available in feet and 2.9 feet. §12.04G - Ordinance any signs that would not be in conformity North and West Elevation signs and erect WESTFIELD – Haverford College allows a maximum all improvement cover- with the Zoning Ordinance. Application a third sign on the East Elevation; and (2) your high school, a college may ex- age of 50%/6,400 square feet. Proposed approved with conditions. § 16.04E1b, regarding the height of the pect you to accept the challenge to announced the graduation with hon- is 51.8% (± 8,244 square feet.). Applica- wall sign(s) on the building (12 feet permit- ors of Erica Greene, daughter of Anthony Calandra, 36 Mohawk Trail; prove that you are academically motion approved with conditions. ted) and heights of 13 feet 8 inch (West Applicant seeks permission to construct a Karrie J. Hanson and Benjamin Elevation), 13 feet 11 ¼ inch (North Eleva- tivated and ready for a competitive Christopher Whelan, 819 front porch expansion contrary to Sec- Greene of Westfield. Erica is a gradu- tion) (existing conditions), and 12 feet (East environment. Taking these courses Shackamaxon Drive, Applicant seeks tions 11.08E5, 11.08E6, and 11.08E5 of Elevation) are proposed. Applicant will ate of Westfield High School. permission to construct a second story the Land Use Ordinance. Ordinance re- show that you care to put in the extra also seek variances as may be required One of 291 members of Haverford’s addition contrary to section 11.07E5 of the quires a front yard setback of 30.1 feet. work, do the extra reading and pre- from Sections § 16.04E.1c (maximum hori- Land Use Ordinance. Ordinance requires Proposed is 27.5 feet. Ordinance requires Class of 2010, Erica received a zontal dimension of main entrance sign) pare for the examination. a street side yard setback for a corner lot a minimum street side yard setback for a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, and § 16.04E.1d (maximum vertical di- This spring, I took my first AP ex- of 20 feet. Proposed is 13.29 feet to the corner property of 20 feet. Proposes is mension of main entrance sign). with a minor in computer science, shed roof over the garage door and 15.39 16.4 feet. Ordinance requires a minimum amination as a sophomore in Ancient Additional variances, including use (d) during commencement ceremonies feet to the wall of the dormer. Application side yard setback of 10 feet. Proposed is European History. Although the prepa- and bulk variances, waivers or exceptions approved. 7.6 feet. Application approved. ration was enormous, I believe that I in Haverford, Pa. on Sunday, May 16. from certain site plan details or relief from She graduated magna cum laude with Harvan Holding Co., 343 South Av- Prakash Datwani, 1 Manchester Drive; the Land Use and Site Plan Ordinance gained organizational habits and test enue East; The applicant is seeking pre- Applicant is seeking permission to con- requirements may be sought as required. skills that will follow me into my departmental honors in Mathemat- liminary and final major site plan approval struct first and second story additions con- Plans and applications are on file in the ics. with c and d variances. The property lo- college career. No teenager is a fan of trary to Sections 12.03D, 12.04F1 and office of the Town Engineer, 959 North standardized tests, but because stu- The title of Erica’s senior thesis, cated in the GB-2 zone is currently used as 12.04F2 of the Land Use Ordinance. Ordi- Avenue West, Westfield, New Jersey and which is the capstone of the Haverford a public garage and a car/truck rental nance requires a front yard setback of 37 may be reviewed Monday through Friday dents are applying to college come business. Per Section 18.13 of the Land feet (EFYD). Proposed is 35.6 feet. Ordi- from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from different schools all over the SUCCESS IS SWEET FOR academic experience, is “The Expec- Use Ordinance, a public garage is a per- nance allows a maximum building cover- Any interested party may appear at said BEECHWOOD BEARS…The tation Maximization Algorithm and mitted conditional use in the GB-2 Zone. country, AP courses are another way age of 20 % without a deck. Proposed is hearing and participate therein in accor- for colleges to measure a student’s Beechwood School in Mountainside Some Applications.” Per Section 18.04F3 a conditional use and 20.46 % without deck. Ordinance allows a dance with the rules of the Board. held a spelling bee during School Li- While studying at Haverford, Erica non-conditional use on the same lot shall maximum building coverage of 22 % with Wendy M. Berger curriculum objectives and their eager- brary Media Month in April. Sheila was involved in a variety of campus occupy separate buildings or structures a deck. Proposed is 22.64 % with deck. Cole, Schotz, Meisel, ness to succeed in high level courses. Silagyi, library media specialist, hosted on the lot. Per Section 11.27D of the Land Application denied. Forman & Leonard, P.A. Mariel Kennedy of Watchung is a activities. She traveled to Denver to Use Ordinance the applicant is seeking to Kathleen Nemeth Attorney for New York SMSA Limited this second annual event. Above, at the sophomore at Wardlaw-Hartridge in Beechwood School Library Media Cen- attend the Grace Hopper Celebration obtain a use variance to allow for a car Secretary, Board of Adjustment Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless of Women in Computers through a rental business. The applicant is seeking d 1 T - 6/24/10, The Leader Fee: $104.55 1 T - 6/24/10, The Leader Fee: $51.51 Edison. ter, are the top two finishers. Holding the trophy is first-place winner Nicho- travel-stipend program offered by the PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE las Manna. Holding the medal is run- natural sciences department. ner-up, and second-place finisher, Dean She started the Women in Science TOWN OF WESTFIELD, BOARD OF EDUCATION Bridgepointe Office Point Park Neuro-Developmental 302 ELM STREET, WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY Metuchen New Jersey 08840 Saifi. Both boys are in second grade. club and taught programming classes for members. Erica participated in PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NOTICE OF CONTRACT AWARD Elisa Dulay, MD (Psychiatrist) $750 per neuro-psychiatric evaluation PUBLIC NOTICE Fanwood New Jersey 02023 the Bi-College Math Colloquium for The Westfield Board of Education has awarded a contract without competitive bidding TOWN OF WESTFIELD Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, as a professional service pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:18A-5a(1). The contract and the Douglass Outreach Center (Autism) $700 per evaluation BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT resolution authorizing it are on file and available for public inspection in the office of New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 and tutored students at the Math Ques- SPECIAL MEETING Westfield Board Of Education. JFK Johnson Rehab. Inst tion Center. Whereas, there exists a need for professional services in the specific area(s) men- Pediatric Rehab dept. The Board of Adjustment of the Town of Erica also held a leadership positioned below for the 2010-2011 school year for the following professional services: Edison, New Jersey $ 400.00 Westfield, New Jersey will hold a special tion in the Haverford College Demo- Whereas, funds are available for this purpose, and whereas, the Public School Contracts meeting on July 7, 2010 in the Council Law (NJSA 18A:18A-1 et seq.) permits the award of contracts without competitive bids Occupational Therapy Services Chambers in the Municipal Building, 425 crats. Before commencement, she was for Professional Services that require licensing and are regulated by law, and Whereas, Morris Union Jointure Commission East Broad Street, Westfield, New Jersey elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest the Public School Contracts Law requires that the Board of Education adopt a resolution 340 Central Avenue OT w/OTR $180.00 per/hr. at 7:30 pm to hear and consider the follow- undergraduate academic honors so- awarding such contracts at a public meeting. New Providence New Jersey 07974-2399 ing appeal. Formal action may be taken at ciety. Robert A. Berman Vista Rehab. Services OT/PT $ 105.00/hr., $95 per 45 mins that meeting. Board Secretary Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095 $85.00per 30 mins. Homebased The Stop and Shop Supermarket Reading is Good For You PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR Evaluation $400.00 Company, LLC, 195, 203, 219 and 233 Elm Street, Block 2505, Lots 4, 5, 6 & 7 Richard Kaplow, P.A. Attorney Retainer -$16,000 Trinitas Healthcare Corp. OT Services $110.00/hr at Clinic Applicant proposes to demolish the ex- Westfield, New Jersey Per Hr. $145. Cranford, New Jersey 07016 276-3599 $ 85.00/45 mins-Clinic isting buildings on Lot 6 and 7, to expand $70.00/30 mins-Clinic and improve the existing retail supermar- Adams Stern Gutierrez & Lattiboudere, LLC $45.00/15 mins Clinic Newark, New Jersey Attorney Per Hr. $160. ket building, to expand the parking lot area OT Services $78.00 at school onto lots 6 &7 and to make other site M. Disko Associates $350.00 Initial Evaluation improvements. Applicant is filing ‘a’ and ‘b’ Union, New Jersey Architect/Engineer 10% of project cost $ 250.00 Re-Eval. appeals concerning the determination of Faridy, Thorne, Fraytak, P.C. JFK Johnson Rehab Inst OT OR PT Evaluation $ 385.00 required variances relevant to this appli- Trenton, New Jersey Architects/Planners Principal $175 80 James Street OT &PT Combined Eval. $707.00 cation. Associate $150 Edison, New Jersey Variances, waivers or exceptions from certain site plan details or relief from re- Project architect $120 Union County Educational Serv. Comm OT Eval $ 425 goleader.com/subscribe Site planner $120 quirements may be sought as appropri- 45 Cardinal Drive ate. Spec. Writer $105 Westfield, New Jersey 07090 Interior Des. $105 The application and plans are on file in PUBLIC NOTICE Senior Drafter $100 Angela L. Lotano Occupational Therapist $100.00 per hour the office of the Secretary of the Board of 1719 Florida Street $ 300.00 per evaluation Adjustment, 959 North Avenue West, Construction $ 95 TOWNSHIP OF SCOTCH PLAINS Junior Drafter $ 85 Westfield, New Jersey 07090 Westfield, New Jersey and may be seen Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm. NOTICE is hereby given that at a meet- Support Pers. $ 70 Therapy Tree, LLC OT/PT/Speech $89.75/hr $72.25/45 mins Kathleen Nemeth ing of the Township Council of the Town- 924 Harding Street $57.75/30mins. Robert Morrison, Hodulik & Morrison, P.A., Board Secretary ship of Scotch Plains, held in the Council Westfield, New Jersey 07090 Group Rate $46.50/30mins $72.25/hr Highland Park, New Jersey Auditor $ 32,725 1 T - 6/24/10, The Leader Fee: $30.60 Chambers in the Municipal Building of $300.00 per evaluation said Township on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 The Family Practice Physical Therapy PUBLIC NOTICE there was introduced, read for the first Overlook, Summit, New Jersey Cynthia Fechter $100 per one hour session time, and passed on such first reading, the Susan T. Kaye MD Westfield New Jersey 07090 $70 per half-hour session TOWN OF WESTFIELD following ordinance: Alfred Murdock DO Medical Service Retainer $28,392 $85 per-45 minutes RESOLUTION $325.00 Physical therapy evaluation AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Assistive Technology Evaluations The following resolution is an exact copy CHAPTER 23 OF THE TOWN- Cerebral Palsy Assoc. of Middlesex Technology Assessment Eval. Therapy Tree, LLC OT/PT/Speech $87.00/hr $70/45 mins of the resolution adopted by the Westfield SHIP CODE ENTITLED, “AF- Dr. Travis Tallman $900 assistive technology eval. Westfield, New Jersey 07090 $56.00/30mins. Town Council at its meeting of June 15, FORDABLE HOUSING DE- Oak Drive, Roosevelt Park $800 augmentative comm. eval. Group Rate $45/30mins $70/hr 2010. VELOPMENT FEES (COAH Edison, New Jersey 08837 732-549-6187 $125.00/hr $255.00 per evaluation Claire J. Gray THIRD ROUND RULES)” BY Town Clerk Audiological Pediatric Advantage OT/PT/Speech $300.00/Evaluation REPEALING AND REPLAC- JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute Audio Eval. Age 5 and up $183.00 Westfield, New Jersey 07090 $60.00/30 minutes CODE REVIEW & TOWN PROPERTY ING EXISTING SECTIONS 8.1 65 James Street Under 5 yrs $ 238.00 $90.00/45 minutes COMMITTEE JUNE 15, 2010 THROUGH 8.10 IN THEIR PO Box 3059 Speech Services $150.00 - 30 mins $120.00/60 minutes ENTIRETY. Edison, New Jersey 08818 Auditory Processing Eval. $ 425.00 TAKE NOTICE that the Town Council of Trinitas Healthcare Corp. PT Services $110.00/hr-Clinic the Town of Westfield will meet in regular EXPLANATION: This Ordinances Behavior Management Services Cranford, New Jersey 07016 276-3599 $75.00/hr-School Based public meeting, at which the public may amends Chapter 23 entitled “Affordable Douglass Outreach Center Consultation to School-Based $350.00 PT eval attend and participate, on July 20, 2010 in Housing Development Fees (COAH Third Rutgers State University Applied Behavior Analysis $150.00/hr Psychological Evaluations the Council Chambers of the Municipal Round Rules)” by repealing and replacing 151 Ryders Lane Behavior Observation $2,500 Morris Union Jointure Commission $695 per evaluation Building, 425 East Broad Street, Westfield, existing Sections 8.1 through 8.10 in their New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 Program Evaluation $2,500 340 Central Avenue New Jersey, at 8:00 p.m. Upon adjourn- entirety. 732-932-3902 Fax 732-932-4469 Psycho-Ed Evaluation $3,000 New Providence New Jersey ment of the regular public meeting, the A public hearing for same will be held on Town Council will meet in Conference Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. in the Jacqueline J. Weber Behaviorist $165.00/hr. Union County Educational Serv. Comm. $320 per evaluation Session on July 20, 2010 in the Adminis- Council Chambers of the Municipal Build- 73 Lincoln Avenue 45 Cardinal Drive trative Conference Room in the Municipal ing, or any time and place to which a Carbondale, Pennsylvania 18407 Westfield, New Jersey 07090 Building, 425 East Broad Street, Westfield, meeting for the further consideration of Spectrum Consulting, Inc. Behavioral Consultation $125.00/hr Speech/Language Oral Motor Evaluations New Jersey, at 8:00 p.m., at which meet- such ordinance shall from time to time be 526 North Avenue, East $120.00/45mins. Vista Rehabilitation Services Oral Motor Eval. $400.00 per evaluation ing the public may attend and make com- adjourned, and all persons interested will Westfield, New Jersey 07090 $110.00/30 185 Green Street, Suite 100 Comprehensive Speech/Lang Eval $400.00 ments, and address Council to discuss be given an opportunity to be heard con- Paraprofessionals $45.00/hr $40.00/45mins Woodbridge New Jersey 07095 and consider matters of public business, cerning such ordinance. $37.00/30mins upon which no formal action will then be A copy of same may be obtained from Speech/Language Therapy Services Glasberg Behavioral Consulting Services taken but which may subsequently be the office of the Township Clerk, 430 Park Speech and Hearing Asso. $500. Evaluation (include CAE) PO Box 554 Behavioral Consultation $165.00/hr acted upon in a regular Council Meeting. 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Township Clerk Vanna Amorapanth, MD (Neurologist) $650 per evaluation 1 T - 6/24/10, The Leader Fee: $261.12 1 T - 6/24/10, The Leader Fee: $31.62 1 T - 6/24/10, The Times Fee: $38.25 goleader.com online exclusive A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, June 24, 2010 Page E-1 CRANFORD COUGAR HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS KELLY HARDMAN NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL-GROUP 3 Cranford Cougars Selected U.C. Softball ‘Team of Year’

Prepared By DAVID B. CORBIN Highlanders answered in the third alternated the pitching responsibili- Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times inning to tie the score, 2-2, when ties with Hardman this season, im- It comes as no real surprise that the Paige Murphy whacked a two-run mediately demonstrated that she was Cranford High School softball team home run. the “real deal” by recording nine has been selected as the Union County The Highlanders snatched a 3-2 strikeouts. “Team of the Year” by The Star-Led- lead in the fourth inning, but in the While not on the mound, Hardman ger. The 23-4 Cougars finished their fifth inning, Cougars Olivia Salinardo patrolled centerfield. In that game season with a 4-3 victory over Gover- and Brianna Capece each laid down against the Raiders, she bashed a nor Livingston (GL) to claim their bunt singles. Ravetier singled and leadoff solo home run and continued fourth Union County Tournament freshman Julie Siragusa singled to to be a terror at the plate, finishing (UCT) championship (2006, 2007, bring home Salinardo and Capece, with a .392 batting average (BA) and 2008, 2010) in five years and fourth respectively, with the tying and even- 28 runs scored. Once on first base, under head coach Bob Bruno. tual winning run. she was also a sure bet to swipe In that championship game, the After a season-opening loss to GL, second base. Cougars took a 2-0 lead in the top of the Cougars began rolling with a 4-3 Last year, Hardman’s earned run the first inning. Junior shortstop victory over the Scotch Plains- average (ERA) was below one run Nicole Ravetier blasted a solo home Fanwood Raiders in Game 1 of the per game (0.34). She averaged 10 run and senior third baseman Taylor Cougar Classic at Adams Field in strikeouts per game to total more D’Antico ripped an RBI single. The Cranford on April 3. Siragusa, who CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times FIRST TEAM ALL-UNION COUNTY, FIRST TEAM ALL-GFROUP 3…Cougar first basemam Nick Cook provided power with four home runs, two triples and 10 doubles. He batted .333 with 29 RBI, 26 runs scored and four stolen bases. FEENEY LED IN B.A., RUTMEYER WINS, PACE THEFTS Baseball Cougars Simply Stole UCT, Sectional, Group 3 Titles

By DAVID B. CORBIN finish 26-5. that play. He is a very aggressive and Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times For every inch yielded, the Cou- smart base runner. He’s pretty laid Little things turned into huge op- gars took a mile, especially with ref- back,” coach McCaffrey said. portunities, and the Cranford High erence to walks and hit batters. The Pace finished with a .410 batting School baseball team exercised the Cougars, who finished ranked fourth average (BA) – 34-for-83 – 37 runs discipline to take full advantage this in the state, drew 114 bases-on-balls scored, 16 RBI, five doubles and three season. The Cougars clawed their (BB) and received 39 hit-by-pitches, triples, while drawing 20 BB’s and way to a sixth Union County Tourna- and they made their opponents pay being hit once. ment (UCT) title, a North Jersey, dearly with 111 stolen bases. The Walano, a junior right fielder, also Group 3, Section 2 title and an numbers 1, 2 and 3 batters, Sean batted .410 (34-for-83), with 38 runs NJSIAA Group 3 championship to Trotter, Nick Pace and Eric Walano, scored, 22 RBI, six doubles, four respectively, accounted for 62 of those triples and five sacrifices. He drew 11 stolen bases. walks and was second on the team “This team was very talented. We with nine hit-by-pitches (HBP). He David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times Summer Sports: ONE OF THE BEST…Cranford pitcher/centerfielder Kelly Hardman, right, was named to the All-UC First Team and All- had very good athletes, who played was also a terror on the bases with 15 Group 3 First Team. She finished this season with a .392 batting average and 28 runs scored. Look for Summer other sports.Weichert We had soccer players stolen bases, and he scored the win- with quick feet and Sean Trotter was ning run in the 6-5 victory over Weichert Men’s Softball and a halfback on the football team, so we Westfield in the UCT championship DONOHUE TOSSES FIRE, HRs; KANE THREE-RUN HR took advantage of that athleticism,” game. Walano, along with Scotch Youth Baseball on the Cougar Head Coach Dennis Plains-Fanwood Raider Joe Cougar Online McCaffrey said. D’Annunzio had been nominated for Pace, a senior centerfielder, was the All-Union County Player of the Cranford Foils Raiders, 10-0, Exclusive Pages: the “chief thief” with 29 stolen bases Year – D’Annunzio got the nod. Cranford Coaches who want (third in the state) out of 30 attempts. “Eric is a student athlete and will His timing and alert base running do anything for the team. He was a their teams covered, please also provided key runs in crucial successful catcher his sophomore call Assistant Publisher/ games, especially in the Group 3 semi- year and agreed to play right field for In Cal Ripken Dist. Tourney Sports Editor Dave Corbin final game against Lakeland when he the team. If we were trying to get at (908) 232-4407 or e-mail took advantage of a slight fielding something going, he was right in the By DAVID B. CORBIN when he chopped a single past short cludedWeichert two home runs and four pause to score in the third inning to middle of it,” coach McCaffrey said. Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times with Griffen Whitmer, who was on doubles. Brandon Kane (2-for-2, 2 [email protected] give the Cougars a 3-1 lead. Trotter, a junior shortstop, had a Flame throwing Eric Donohue first base with a walk, with two outs runs scored) crushed a three-run “He scored from second base on CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 tossed a one-hitter, walked two and in the second inning. A heads-up homer to give the Cougars a 3-0 lead struck out four as the Cranford 12- play for a putout to first base by at the end of one inning. Donohue, year-old baseball team defeated Scotch Cougar catcher Josh Cucuzzella fol- who finished 2-for-2 with three runs Plains-Fanwood, 10-0, in four innings lowed to prevent the Raiders from scored and a walk, hammered a solo in the first round of the Cal Ripken scoring. Donohue’s other walk was blast in the five-run third inning. Pat District 12 Tournament at Gumbert to Raider leadoff hitter George Knight doubled, singled, scored twice Field 2 in Westfield on June 21. Leichtling in the first inning. and swiped a pair of bases. Joe Norton “Eric is a great kid. He’s got great The young Cougars showed a re- had an RBI double and an RBI single, physical tools. Obviously, he is a big markable similarity to this year’s and scored once. Jamie Brawley (RBI, kid. He’s 5’8” and 140 pounds. More Cranford High School team players, run scored) and Sean Leahey each who were absolute terrors on the base singled, and Cocuzzella singled, COLONIAL paths and finished their champion- walkedWeichert and scored once. Nick Ballas This story is also in ship season with 111 steals. Playing cracked a two-run, ground rule with a 70-foot distance between bases, double. the printed portion of the young Cougars had eight stolen Several hit-and-run plays also The Westfield Leader bases in the game. worked to the Cougars’ advantage, “We get it from them [high school]. especially the final one off the bat of They don’t get it from us. We like to Norton in the bottom of the fourth, importantly, he’s a great kid. He picks play aggressively. They are 12-year- which drove in the 10th run to end the everyone up. He loves playing base- old kids. They love to have fun. What game via 10-run rule. ball and he is a great teammate. That they love about playing 50-70 is they “They like to do stuff that they see is first and foremost, and the fact that can lead and steal, so we let them run the high school team do. We work on he throws 70 miles-per-hour doesn’t and have fun,” said coach Norton. hit-and-run. We try to hit behind the hurt at all either,” Cougar Head Coach “At this level, with 70-foot bases, it’s runner and keep it fun for them,” Joe Norton said. really hard to throw kids out. The coach Norton said. “He threw a great game. He threw pitcher has got to do a good job of Sc. Pl.-Fanwood 000 0 0 the ball hard, and I think our kids keeping them close. The catcher’s Cranford 305 2 10 were a little bit intimidated. They let got to have a really good gun. We it get in their heads, and that’s what don’t have the fastest team in the See Game Photos we talked about right down the line, world, but we work on base running so that won’t happen again,” Raider a lot. We work on getting good jumps. On Cougar Page 3 Head Coach Glenn Deusch said. “He We work on sliding away from the Also see – 10jun21-cr-spf-base [Donohue] changes the game tag. You don’t need to be super fast to quickly.” be a good base runner.” Julian Korduba was the only The Cougars also provided plenty 2010 RAIDER Raider to get a single off Donohue of offense with 12 hits, which in- SOCCER CAMP at Scotch Plains - Fanwood High School “The Only Local Camp Not Held in a Park!” Our 18th Consecutive Season W JULY 5-9 estfield. Classic 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Colonial with hardwood floors, fireplace in Living Room, Formal Dining Room with access to Sun Room and fenced rear yard with brick patio. 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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 .360 BA (32-for-89) with nine times and taking one for the team. went 3-for-11 (.273) with an RBI and doubles, 33 runs scored, 13 RBI and Defensively, he committed only one four runs scored. a sacrifice. He swiped 18 bases, drew error and gunned down 13 runners Senior pitcher Pat Gilstrap, in 35 14 walks and was hit five times. attempting to steal. innings, fanned 22 batters, walked 17 “Sean set a great tone as the leadoff Senior first baseman Nick Cook and finished 4-0, but the Cougars got batter. He is a tremendous infielder. provided the power with four home very pleasant surprises from their He solidified the middle,” coach runs, two triples and 10 doubles. He underclassmen. Sophomore Kurt McCaffrey said. batted .333 (26-for-78) with 29 RBI, Rutmeyer, in 46.3 innings, mixed his Senior second baseman Rob 26 runs scored and four stolen bases, fastball well with a wicked breaking Ghiretti also had a knack of being a while drawing six BBs and being hit ball to strike out 46 batters, while criminal on the base paths. Although five times. He crunched a three-run walking only 18, to finish with a 7-1 he drew only four walks, he led the homer in the UCT to tie the score, 5- record and a 1.21 ERA. Rutmeyer, team with 10 HBPs. In 14 attempts, 5, and hammered a grand slam in his along with freshman reliever Ryan he successfully swiped 13 bases. final at bat in the 15-3, Group 3 Williamson, came up smelling like Ghiretti finished with a .337 BA (29- victory over Ocean City. Cook also roses in all major tournament games. for-86) with nine doubles, three took to the mound and finished with Williamson, in 33.3 innings, fanned triples, 18 RBI, 27 runs scored a a 5-1 record with three saves and a 39 and walked only 15 to finish 4-2 sacrifice. 1.77 ERA in 35 innings. with two saves. But Ghiretti was also a chief law “Nick had seven RBI in the UCT “Kurt threw strikes and gave us a enforcer with his defensive prowess. and Group 3 finals. He made unbe- chance to win every time. We knew He had only two errors all season and lievable plays in the field. He did an what we were getting with Ryan. We made numerous spectacular plays, outstanding job on the mound. His were confident he was going to be the most crucial being in the Group 3 only loss was to Jackson early in the successful, and he was successful,” title game that sunk the spirit of Ocean year,” said coach McCaffrey. coach McCaffrey said. City. Interestingly, it took a freshman to Sophomore Vinnie Colineri, in 28.3 “He and Sean controlled the middle lead the Cougars in batting, and third innings, fanned 21 and walked 11 to of the infield. He had quality at bats baseman Sean Feeney had the right finish 3-0. that enabled us to do a number of stuff with a .435 BA (20-for-46), in- “It was a total team effort. They David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times things at the plate,” coach McCaffrey cluding three doubles and a pair of worked well together on the team A KNACK OF BEING A WINNER…Third baseman Taylor D’Antico, in her three varsity seasons, the Cougars had said. triples. He also had 11 runs scored, concept,” said coach McCaffrey, who amassed a 68-10 record. D’Antico was selected All-UC First Team and All-Group 3 Third Team.. Junior designated hitter Greg 12 RBI and seven stolen bases. He noted that the Cougars had eight play- Matlosz, who led the team with 36 especially came up big with the bat in ers to get All-Union County honors. RBI and six sacrifices, finished with the sectional semifinal game against ALL-UNION COUNTY HONORS: a .397 BA (31-for-78), nine doubles, Scotch Plains-Fanwood and the Nick Cook First Team Cranford Cougars Selected U.C. ‘Team of Year’ Nick Pace First Team three triples, a home run and 28 runs Group 3 semifinal against Lakeland. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Used primarily as a courtesy run- Eric Walano First Team scored, while walking 15 times and Greg Matlosz First Team stealing three bases. Junior leftfielder ner, junior Justin Van Ostenbridge Kurt Rutmeyer Second Team than 200 in the 25 games that she was sively as well as defensively. She led Bagnewski displayed some offensive Mark Osofsky had a .382 BA (34-for- did manage to score 17 runs and Mark Osofsky Second Team on the mound. This season, she fin- the team with a .453 BA (33-for-73), prowess to finish with 17 RBI and 16 89), 30 RBI, 25 runs scored, seven swipe seven bases. In his 14 innings Ryan Williamson Third Team ished with a 1.46 ERA. had 36 RBI and rapped three home runs scored. In the 1-0 victory over on the mound, he recorded a 3-0 Rob Ghiretti Third Team On April 9, Hardman tossed a two- runs, four triples and five doubles. ALJ, she lofted an RBI sacrifice fly doubles, a triple and a homer. He ALL-GROUP 3 HONORS: drew 18 BBs, was hit once and stole record. Senior Keith Powell went 12- Walano First Team hitter, struck out 10 and walked two Moreno was selected All-UC First to bring home Ravetier with the win- nine bases. for-30 (.400) with 13 RBI, five runs Cook First Team as the Cougars defeated the ALJ Cru- Team and All-Group 3 Third Team. ning run in the bottom of the 11th Senior catcher Marc Linger fin- scored, two doubles and a triple. Se- Matlosz Second Team saders, 1-0, in an 11-inning classic at She was the “Cougar Athlete of the inning. In a 10-0 shutout of Summit, nior Nate Verrilli went 5-for-14 (.357) Pace Third Team Adams Field. In the first round of the Week” from April 19 to April 23. the hottest “metal stick” belonged to ished with a .232 BA (13-for-56), Rutmeyer Third Team two doubles, a triple, nine RBI and with two doubles, two RBI and seven U.C. TEAM OF THE YEAR: UCT, Siragusa and Hardman com- Nicole Ravetier, who had two hits, Bagniewski, who went 3-for-3 with four runs scored, while walking 17 runs scored. Junior Chris Nicastro Cranford Cougars bined for 17 strikeouts to shutout an RBI and a run scored in the open- three RBI and a run scored. Several Roselle Catholic, 9-0. Hardman also ing game against GL and also went 2- additional Cougars, juniors Capece, tossed a five-inning one-hitter in im- for-2 with two RBI against the SPF Salinardo and Kathleen French, and prove to 10-2 as the top-seeded Cou- Raiders on April 3. She continued her sophomore Emily Snyder also expe- gars defeated the Raiders, 16-1, in consistency at the plate to finish sec- rienced adequate time in the lineup. the UCT quarterfinals. ond on the team with a .438 BA, Hardman and D’Antico were the Hardman was named to the All-UC while scoring 21 runs and adding 18 only seniors on the starting lineup First Team and All-Group 3 First Team. RBI. Ravetier was selected All-UC and will be hard to replace, but the Siragusa, a lefthander who finished Second Team. Cougars should still be a major force with an 11-1 record and an 0.69 ERA, Junior second baseman Stephanie next year. was also selected All-UC First Team. Siragusa tossed a five-inning, two- hitter and walked only one batter in an Several Cougars Receive 11-0, shutout the Raiders in their third meeting in the North Jersey, Group 3 first round on May 19. She was aver- aging in the realm of eight to 10 All-UC, All-Group Honors strikeouts per game. Siragusa also proved herself at the plate with a .409 A host of Cranford High School Smith was selected All-UC and All- BA, 30 RBI and 27 runs scored. She athletes have received All-Union Group 2 Third Team in boys track. was the “Cougar Athlete of the Week” County (UC), All-Conference and In softball, senior Kelly Hardman from May 17 to May 22. All-Group honors by The Star-Led- was selected All-UC and All-Group D’Antico, a solid fixture at third ger. Cougar senior track star Kelly 3 First Team. Freshman Julie Siragusa base for three years, was the team Burke received the highest honor of was named All-UC First Team, while leader of the infield and committed First Team All-State for her efforts in senior Taylor D’Antico and sopho- only three errors the past two years. the pole vault. She also was named more Melissa Moreno were selected Offensively, she finished with a .386 Union County “Athlete of the Year”, All-Group 3 and All-UC First Team. BA, 19 runs scored and 18 RBI. In as well as All-UC and All Group 2 In boys lacrosse, senior Steve her three years, the Cougars had First Teams. DiGiovanni was named to the All- amassed a 68-10 record. D’Antico Junior Natalie Englese was selected Waterman First Team. Nicole was selected All-UC First Team and First Team All-Group 2 and First Kleiman with 86 goals and 19 assists David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times All-Group 3 Third Team. 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EQUAL HOUSING is a service mark of The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Equal Housing Opportunity. OPPORTUNITY REALTOR® Page 16 Thursday, June 24, 2010 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Henry Aiden Denny, 82, Family Man; – Obituaries – U.S. Navy Veteran of World War II Henry Aiden Denny, 82, passed Noonan; a devoted sister, M. Judith McLane, 65, Devoted to Family; away on Thursday, June 17, at his Veronica Abjornson; 20 loving daughter’s home in Cranford. grandchildren and eight beloved Head Nurse of Neurosurgery at Hospital Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had great-grandchildren. Judith Anne McLane, 65, passed she organized her troops. She en- lived in Westfield before moving to A Mass of Christian Burial was away peacefully on Monday, June joyed every moment with each of Boynton Beach, Fla. offered on Saturday, June 19, at St. 21, 2010, surrounded by her family her four daughters-in-law, who she A United States Navy veteran of Michael’s Roman Catholic Church after a courageous battle loved as if they were World War II, Mr. Denny had been a in Cranford. Entombment took place against an infection. her own, and took great manager for ISO in New York. at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield. Born in Jersey City to pleasure in the numer- His brother, Edward J. Denny, pre- Arrangements were under the di- Eugene and Hannah ous family vacations, deceased him. rection of the Dooley Funeral Home, Corcoran, Judy graduated especially summers in Surviving are his beloved wife of 218 North Avenue, West, in Cranford. from St. Dominic Acad- Martha’s Vineyard and 60 years, Joan A. (Russell) Denny; In lieu of flowers, donations may emy and Holy Name Hos- winters in Florida, with six loving children, Maureen D. be made in his memory to St. Jude pital School of Nursing all of her 12 grandchil- Gabbett, Henry Aiden Denny, Jr., Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude in Teaneck, N.J. She be- dren. Patricia McCullough, Linda J. Ceci, Place, Memphis, TN 38105. June 24, 2010 SERVICE ABOVE SELF…Dr. Yede Dennis, center, is honored with Rotary gan her nursing career at Judy is survived by her Bonnie Choy-Shan and Kathleen D. International’s Service Above Self (SAS) Award by Rotary District 7510 for her Bayonne Hospital and husband of 44 years, humanitarian work in Rwanda. Flanking her are the Rotary Club of Westfield’s went on to a 14-year ca- Bruce; four sons, Bruce Dr. D. Michael Hart, Past District Governor and chairman of the SAS Award reer at St. Vincent’s Hos- (Paula), Colin (Colleen), College Woman’s Club Committee, left, and Rotary District Governor Alex Cauwels. pital in New York City, Jason (Karen) and Kevin culminating as head nurse (Anne); 12 grandchil- of neurosurgery. dren, Hannah, Madeline, Awards Eight Scholarships Rotary District Recognizes Judith Anne McLane She met the love of her Devon, Liam, Aidan, WESTFIELD – The College University in Ohio this fall. In ad- life, Robert Bruce Meghan, Colin, Eleanor, Woman’s Club (CWC) of Westfield dition to her academic honors, Sh- Humanitarian With Award McLane, and they married in 1966. Bruce IV, Brendan, Ryan and Luke; awarded $55,000 in college schol- annon held three part-time jobs Together they had four sons, who they her brother, Gene Corcoran, and her arships to eight Westfield High and volunteered at St. Helen’s WESTFIELD – Rotary District country, according to the Rotary Club raised in Queens, N.Y., prior to mov- in-laws, Judy Corcoran, Patricia But- Youth Program and Sister Pat’s 7510, which includes Westfield and of Westfield. School (WHS) seniors at its an- ing to Westfield, N.J. in 1982. Judy ler and Marjorie Maxfield. Judy also nual dinner on May 18. Cancer Camp. For her Girl Scout other communities in Union and A retired dentist, Dr. Dennis was was an avid sports fan who rarely will be sadly missed by her many Gold Award, she created a manual Middlesex Counties, recently pre- an associate professor at the Univer- Jenna Rodrigues was awarded missed the opportunity to watch one nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of the club’s third Eileen “Mike” on how to run the “Waysharers” sented the Service Above Self Award sity of Medicine and Dentistry in of her boys’ games, and spent a major- friends. program for developmentally dis- to humanitarian Dr. Yede Dennis. Newark for most of her career. She Farley Scholarship. She plans to ity of her time driving, whether to Friends are asked to join her family attend Princeton University, where abled adults that she has been in- This award is the most prestigious is a member of the Rotary Club of New York City, Westfield, Morristown, at the visitation to tell “Judy Stories” volved in throughout high school. one given by Rotary International South Plainfield. she will study economics. Jenna Lewisburg, Boston, Philadelphia or from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today, was on the WHS Fed Challenge Scholarship recipient Leslie Holt and is only bestowed on 150 indi- Chairman of the nominating com- the many cities and towns in between. Thursday, June 24, at the William R. is a scholar and accomplished ath- viduals throughout the world each mittee is Dr. D. Michael Hart from Team, and competed in the Sci- Surviving cancer at an early age, Dangler Funeral Home, 309 Spring- ence Olympiad, winning fifth and lete who swam on the WHS varsity year. There are 33,000 Rotary clubs the Rotary Club of Westfield. He is Judy later overcame debilitating os- field Avenue in Summit, N.J. A Fu- swim team for all four years. She and 1.2 million Rotarians in 166 a Past District Governor in Rotary seventh place titles in cell biology teoporosis to successfully undergo neral Mass will be celebrated at St. and ecology and experimental de- will attend Douglass College at countries throughout the world. District 7510. Governor Alex bilateral hip replacement, which gave Helen’s Roman Catholic Church on Rutgers University in September. The Service Above Self Award is Cauwels is from the Rotary Club of sign. She also participated in Model her the ability to walk again. She took Rahway Avenue in Westfield at 10 UN, and broke multiple WHS gym- Leslie was a member of the WHS based on “hands-on” service, or ac- Princeton Corridor. full advantage of her newfound mo- a.m. tomorrow, Friday, June 25. Wind Ensemble, playing the flute. tual participation. Dr. Dennis spent The purpose of Rotary Interna- nastics records. bility and spent a great deal of time In lieu of flowers, memorial contri- Kathleen O’Donnell-Pickert was She also was vice-president of the one full year in Rwanda helping to tional is to bring together business traveling with the many friends whom butions made to The Westfield School French Club, where she was re- rebuild the health care infrastruc- and professional men and women to the recipient of the CWC’s fourth she had grown to love. Boosters Association, P.O. Box 564, Ruth Houghton Scholarship. She sponsible for spearheading the ture of that country. After the geno- provide humanitarian service, en- Judy was affectionately nick- Westfield, N.J. 07091-0594 in her club’s emergency response drive cide of 1994, during which more courage high ethical standards in all plans to attend Quinnipiac Univer- named “The General” by almost all name would be greatly appreciated. sity, where she will pursue a de- for Haiti. Leslie additionally par- than one million people were killed vocations and help build goodwill June 24, 2010 who knew her because of the way gree in occupational therapy. ticipated in two foreign exchange in 100 days, mostly with machetes, and peace in the world. programs to France. the entire professional class fled for The Rotary Club of Westfield Kathleen participated in the Union County Gifted and Talented Pro- Jessica Mondon also received a their lives and never came back. This meets for lunch every Tuesday at CWC scholarship this year. She exodus left the country without doc- 12:15 p.m. at the Westfield Area Shakespeare’s As You Like It gram of dance, and distinguished herself through her Girl Scout Gold will attend Colgate University next tors, dentists, lawyers, professional “Y,” located at 220 Clark Street in fall, where she plans to study chem- educators and other specialists. Westfield. Guests are always wel- Award, creating “The Prom at Cov- To Take Place at Library enant House” for youths at risk. istry. In addition to multiple aca- During her year abroad, Dr. Den- come. For more information, visit demic honors, Jessica distin- westfieldrotary.com. She also has traveled in the United nis served at the Kigali Health Insti- outlaws, the plucky Rosalind becomes guished herself on the softball field tute of Rwanda, training 60 students WESTFIELD – The Westfield States and to India to volunteer her Single Jewish Friends Memorial Library will present a catalyst for change, bringing about services to those in need. and the basketball court, holding to be dental health care auxiliaries. laughter, love and reconciliation. junior varsity captain positions for These individuals need only one year Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like Elizabeth Kamel received the To Dine This Sunday It on Tuesday, July 6, at 7 p.m. at the Abigail Isaac, an alumna of The new Elizabeth “Betty” Davidson both teams. She also was very ac- to train, and they work in the jungles Shakespeare Theatre’s professional tive in Model UN and the Science without water or electricity. By train- AREA – The Circle of Single Jew- library, located at 550 East Broad Scholarship. She plans to major in ish Friends 49+ will hold a Meet and Street. The show will be performed training program, is directing. It is psychology at Bryn Mawr College. Olympiad, and spent many hours ing 60 paraprofessionals who will recommended for ages 8 and up. as a coach for the St. Thomas’ work for the next 30 or 40 years, Dr. Eat Lunch this Sunday, June 27, at by The Shakespeare Theatre of New Elizabeth participated on the var- noon. It will take place at Red Lob- Jersey’s Next Stage Ensemble sum- One of multiple outreach pro- sity cross-country team and was a Softball League and the Westfield Dennis has made a permanent im- grams offered by The Shakespeare Hi’s Blue Storm team. Jessica was a provement in the health care of that ster, located at 635 Gill Lane and US mer touring program. correspondent for the WHS Highway 1 South (across from Banished by her cruel uncle, Theatre of New Jersey, the Next Eye and Blue Devil News. She also founding member of the Hoping Woodbridge Mall) in Iselin. Rosalind must disguise herself as a Stage Ensemble brings live perfor- founded a club at WHS devoted to for Health Club at WHS. Prayer to The cost is the price of a meal off boy and flee to the Forest of Arden. In mances to audiences of all ages addressing the root causes of bul- Julia Spiridigliozzi, another the menu and the tip, plus $3. Inter- this fairy tale setting, surrounded by throughout New Jersey each sum- lying. Additionally, Elizabeth has scholarship recipient this year, The Blessed Virgin ested persons are asked to respond to courtiers and fools, shepherds and mer, while enabling young perform- been involved in the “Y”’s Real plans to attend Fairfield Univer- (Never known to fail) Roberta at (908) 668-8450 or ers to gain experience in classical Girls program, Temple Emanu-El’s sity in the fall to major in biology Oh most beautiful Flower of [email protected]. theater and ensemble work. youth group and was a volunteer at and chemistry. A scholar and ath- Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, The Next Stage Ensemble up- Children’s Specialized Hospital. lete, she earned two varsity letters Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Summer Movie Series holds the Shakespearean tradition Caraugh Ball was awarded the and was a starting defender for the Mother of the Son of God, Im- of a traveling company of actors Katherine Jaruzelski Scholarship. WHS varsity soccer team in both maculate Virgin, assist me in my To Begin at LaGrande bringing its theatrical repertory into She plans to study speech pathol- her junior and senior years. She necessity. Oh, Star of the Sea, help FANWOOD – The Fanwood Rec- the community, by performing at ogy and business management at also traveled extensively as start- me! Show me herein you are my reation Commission has announced hospitals, retirement communities, The College of New Jersey. In ad- ing defender for a nationally ranked mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of its 2010 Free Summer Movie Series libraries, camps, schools and com- dition to co-captaining the cross club team. Julia volunteered at God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, at LaGrande Park in Fanwood. Fam- munity centers. country, spring and winter track Children’s Specialized Hospital I humbly beseech you from the ily-friendly movies will be shown Much as an Elizabethan traveling teams, Caraugh was president of and St. Helen’s Youth Program, bottom of my heart to succor me in on a state-of-the-art, 16-foot-wide, company would have done, the the Junior Optimist Club, an editor and was active in the Italian Club, this necessity. There are none who outdoor screen. troupe tours with only minimal sets and writer for Hi’s Eye and creator Breast Cancer Awareness Club and can withstand your power. Show The series will kick off on Tues- and without lighting equipment. of the “Hope Runs” program at Operation Smile at WHS. me herein you are my mother. Oh day, June 29, and will continue every Actors typically perform in mul- WHS, collecting over 240 pairs of The recipients were selected Mary, conceived without sin, pray Tuesday evening for eight consecu- tiple roles. The performers rely upon sneakers for orphans in Africa, to based on academic achievements, for us who have recourse to thee. tive weeks. The movies will begin at the text and their craft, rather than promote wellness through running. financial need and community ser- Holy Mother, I place this cause in dusk (approximately 8:30 p.m. at the on elaborate sets, costumes and spe- Caraugh also was a Transition vice. The club also will award a your hands (3x). beginning of the schedule, 8 p.m. at cial effects. The next show that the Project Leader at WHS. grant to the WHS female senior Holy Spirit, You who solve all the end). Attendees are asked to bring Ensemble will perform at the li- Shannon Doyle, a scholarship graduating with the highest aca- problems, light all roads so that I a blanket or beach chair. brary will be The Rover on Wednes- recipient, will attend John Carroll demic GPA. may attain my goal. You who gave The schedule of films is as fol- day, August 11, at 7 p.m. me the divine gift to forgive and lows: June 29 – The Fantastic Mr. This program is open to Westfield forget all evil against me and that in Fox; July 6 – Night at the Museum: Memorial Library and MURAL Service League Thrift Shop all instances in my life You are with Battle of the Smithsonian; July 13 – SOCCER AND SPIRIT…Faith Madi- cardholders. Registration is strongly me. I want in this short prayer to Imagine That; July 20 – Monsters son Dobosiewicz of Westfield loves encouraged, as productions are typi- thank You as I confirm once again vs. Aliens; July 27 – Ice Age 3; Au- playing soccer and really got a “kick” cally well attended. To register, ac- Slates Week of Bag Sales that I never want to be separated gust 3 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: out of making her First Holy Com- cess the library’s website, from You in eternal glory. Thank The Squeakquel; August 10 – Cloudy munion on May 2. SCOTCH PLAINS – Because of week of bag sales beginning Satur- wmlnj.org, and click on the Online the overwhelming amount of do- day, June 26. you for your mercy towards me With a Chance of Meatballs, and SHERIFF’S SALE Calendar, or call (908) 789-4090, and mine. Amen. August 17 – Up. nations received from its patrons, Rather than continue with half- SHERIFF’S FILE NO.: CH-10003332 extension no. 4140. the Fanwood-Scotch Plains Ser- price sales, league members de- Say this prayer on three con- In the event of rain, the movies SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION vice League Thrift Shop, located cided to run a bag sale and pass secutive days. Publish this prayer will be shown the following evening. UNION COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE after the favor is granted. For more information, e-mail DOCKET NO. F-26730-07 at 1730 East Second Street in along the savings and bargains to Plaintiff: HSBC BANK USA N.A. SHERIFF’S FILE NO.: CH-10000493 Scotch Plains, will hold an extra its customers. Shopping bags will M.O. [email protected] or call (908) VS. SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY Defendant: ROBERT TABOR AND NEW JER- CHANCERY DIVISION be provided at the door. For $5 a 370-7092. SEY ANESTHESIA STONE CENTER UNION COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE Sale Date: 07/07/2010 DOCKET NO. F-47370-08 bag, patrons will be able to fill Writ of Execution: 03/25/2008 Plaintiff: INDYMAC BANK, FSB SHERIFF’S FILE NO.: CH-10003336 whatever merchandise will fit. By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution VS. SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY to me directed I shall expose for sale by public Defendant: ROBIN V. BROWN CHANCERY DIVISION Items like quilts, large pictures and vendue, at the UNION COUNTY ADMINISTRA- Sale Date: 06/30/2010 UNION COUNTY TION BUILDING, 1ST FLOOR, 10 ELIZABETH- Writ of Execution: 02/17/2010 DOCKET NO. F-15261-07 toys that do not fit in a bag will sell TOWN PLAZA, Elizabeth, New Jersey on By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution Plaintiff: LYNX ASSET SERVICES LLC for half price. The sale will end on Gray Funeral Homes WEDNESDAY, at two o’clock in the afternoon of to me directed I shall expose for sale by public VS. said day. All successful bidders must have 20% vendue, at the UNION COUNTY ADMINISTRA- Defendant: ERIC HOLZER AND KIMBERLY Saturday, July 3. of their bid available in cash or certified check at TION BUILDING, 1ST FLOOR, 10 ELIZABETH- HOLZER, HUSBAND AND WIFE Since 1897 the conclusion of the sales. TOWN PLAZA, Elizabeth, New Jersey on Sale Date: 07/07/2010 The thrift shop will remain open The judgment amount is: ***Three Hundred WEDNESDAY, at two o’clock in the afternoon of Writ of Execution: 04/20/2010 throughout the summer on its regu- Fifty Five Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Seven said day. All successful bidders must have 20% By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution and 84/100*** $355,697.84. of their bid available in cash or certified check at to me directed I shall expose for sale by public lar hourly schedule. The store will The property to be sold is located in the BOR- the conclusion of the sales. vendue, at the UNION COUNTY ADMINISTRA- OUGH OF GARWOOD, County of Union and The judgment amount is: ***Four Hundred TION BUILDING, 1ST FLOOR, 10 ELIZABETH- reopen, restocked with all “new” State of New Jersey. Eighty Nine Thousand Five Hundred Five and TOWN PLAZA, Elizabeth, New Jersey on merchandise, on Tuesday, July 6. It is commonly known as 518 MYRTLE AV- 74/100*** $489,505.74. WEDNESDAY, at two o’clock in the afternoon of ENUE, GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY The property to be sold is located in the Town- said day. All successful bidders must have 20% Sundresses, sandals, shorts, T- It is known and designated as Block 305, Lot ship of Scotch Plains, County of Union and State of their bid available in cash or certified check at 19. of New Jersey. the conclusion of the sales. shirts, golf shirts, men’s and The dimensions are approximately 50 feet Commonly known as: 516 Rolling Peaks Way, The judgment amount is: ***Six Hundred Ninety women’s slacks and children’s cloth- wide by 100 feet long (irregular). Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076. Six Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Nine and 33/ Nearest cross street: West Street Tax Lot No. 12 in Block No. 6001 100*** $696,459.33. ing all will be replenished. House- Prior Lien(s): Dimension of Lot Approximately: 000.310 AC Property to be sold is located in the Town of Total Upset: ***Four Hundred Thirty Two Nearest Cross Street: Johnson Street Westfield, County of Union and State of New hold bric-a-brac, costume jewelry, Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Four and 80/ Being known and designated as Lot 23 in Jersey. purses, hats, linens, pictures and 100*** $432,974.80 together with lawful interest Block 157 as shown on Map entitled, “Map of Premises are commonly known as: 405 and costs. Rolling Peaks” duly filed in Union County Clark’s QUANTUCK LANE, WESTFIELD, NEW JER- books will be restocked as well. Subject to any unpaid taxes, municipal liens or office on September 23, 1969 as filed Map No. SEY 07090 other charges, and any such taxes, charges, 851-A, County of Union, State of New Jersey, Lot No.: 19, Block No.: 403 Donations are always accepted Begun in 1876 by William Gray, in Cranford and later Incorporated in liens, insurance premiums or other advances APN #: Block 6001, Lot 12 Cimensions of lot: N/A during operating hours. Store hours made by plaintiff prior to this sale. All interested Prior Liens/Encumbrances Nearest cross street: N/A 1897 as the Gray Burial & Cremation Company. parties are to conduct and rely upon their own 2010 2nd Qtr Taxes Open: $2,311.22 Tax information: are 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Today, known by many simply as Gray’s. We continue to provide the independent investigation to ascertain whether Total as of May 5, 2010: $2,311.22 Additional information can be found in the or not any outstanding interest remain of record Total Upset: ***Five Hundred Fifty Two Thou- Union County Seriff’s Office. Wednesday and Thursday, and 10 personal service that began with Mr. Gray, whether it be for burial or and/or have priority over the lien being fore- sand Four Hundred Seventy Five and 09/100*** Total Upset: ***Seven Hundred Seventy Thou- a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday and Satur- closed and, if so the current amount due thereon. $552,475.09 together with lawful interest and sand Three Hundred Seventy Four and 67/100*** cremation. Surplus Money: If after the sale and satisfac- costs. $770,374.67 together with lawful interest and day. The thrift shop is an all-vol- tion of the mortgage debt, including costs and Surplus Money: If after the sale and satisfac- costs. expenses, there remains any surplus money, the tion of the mortgage debt, including costs and Surplus Money: If after the sale and satisfac- unteer-run store. 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Receive Teaching Awards WESTFIELD – Westfield Public giving a speech in class or acting on Downtown Jazz Festival School teachers Michael Altmann and stage.” Denis McMorrow were named Out- The second 2010 Optimist winner standing Intermediate School Teach- is Mr. McMorrow, who has served Begins Tuesday, July 6 ers for 2010 by the Optimist Club of the students at Roosevelt Intermedi- WESTFIELD – The “Sweet Sounds enue. Westfield and were honored at the ate School for 16 years, combining Downtown” Jazz Festival, sponsored Tuesday, July 20: Taino, Central Westfield Board of Education meet- 12 years as a Language Arts teacher by the Downtown Westfield Corpora- Avenue, and B.D. Lenz, East Broad ing on May 25. and four as an assistant principal. tion (DWC), kicks off its 14th annual Street and North Avenue; Patty A reception in their honor was held He returned to his first love of season in downtown Westfield on Tues- Cronheim Ensemble, Elm Street; Chris at Lincoln School prior to the busi- teaching middle school students, al- day, July 6. Performances will take Colaneri Quintet, North Avenue. ness portion of the meeting, with though he said his experience in ad- IN FULL SWING AGAIN…The Full Count Big Band will perform at the opening place on sidewalks and street corners, Tuesday, July 27: Marlene VerPlanck, resolutions presented by the board. ministration “enabled me to truly night of the 14th annual Sweet Sounds Downtown Jazz Festival on July 6. Four for nine consecutive weeks, every Tues- Central Avenue; Glenn Alexander Trio, different band performances take place each Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. They are the recipients of the 13th understand the ‘big picture’ of edu- (with Wednesday rain dates) from July 6 through August 31. For a full schedule, day through August 31 from 7 to 9 p.m. East Broad Street and North Avenue; annual Optimist award, established cation and how each person fits in the visit WestfieldToday.com. Rain dates will be the following Gordon James, Elm Street; Richard in 1998 to recognize the importance whole system.” Wednesday evenings at the same time. Reiter Swing Band, North Avenue. of teaching in the intermediate grades. With a degree in finance from Se- Bands will be located on Central Tuesday, August 3: Jazz Lobsters, The award is presented annually to ton Hall University, Mr. McMorrow Avenue next to Banana Republic, the Central Avenue; Justin Derman Jazz two Westfield teachers – one each began his career on Wall Street be- Tramps Like Us Open Up lawn in front of the North Avenue Train Trio, East Broad Street and North Av- from Edison and Roosevelt Interme- fore moving into the field of educa- Station, the corner of East Broad and enue; La Balteuband, Elm Street; diate Schools. tion. He holds a master’s degree in Prospect Streets, and Elm Street in Scarlett Lee Moore, North Avenue. Summer Arts Festival front of the Baptist Church. Tuesday, August 10: Dr. Dubious CRANFORD — The Union Sinatra and friends) at Oak Ridge “Sweet Sounds Downtown is ex- and the Agnostics, Central Avenue; County Summer Arts Festival 2010 Park; August 18 – The Nerds (Jersey tremely popular for all ages. From con- Too Blue Lou and the Groove, East concert series begins a new season of Shore party band) at Oak Ridge Park; temporary or traditional jazz to blues to Broad Street and North Avenue; Lauren music on Wednesday evening, June August 25 – Jimmy and the Parrots big band, there are live performances to Shub Trio, Elm Street; Radam 30, with a performance by “Tramps (Jimmy Buffett cover band) at Oak please everyone,” said Sherry Cronin, Schwartz, North Avenue. Like Us” – a Bruce Springsteen trib- Ridge Park. DWC executive director. “The event is Tuesday, August 17: Nicole Hart, ute band. The free concert begins at In case of rain, concerts will be great for businesses downtown on Tues- Central Avenue; Eric Mintel Quartet, 7:30 p.m. in Echo Lake Park in held at the air-conditioned audito- day night.” East Broad Street and Central Avenue; Mountainside. rium at Cranford High School, on According to Beth Brenner, assis- Bradford Hayes, Elm Street; Roxy Tramps Like Us is a group of sea- West End Place off Springfield Av- tant executive director, “We have a mix Perry, North Avenue. soned, professional musicians with a enue in Cranford at 7:30 p.m. of great bands which played in past Tuesday, August 24: Jimmy Jazz, OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS…Michael Altmann, left, representing repertoire of more than 100 tunes For rain information call the Union festivals as well as new bands this year. Central Avenue; Jerry Topinka, East Edison Intermediate School (EIS) in Westfield, has been selected as the Outstand- from the Bruce Springsteen County Department of Parks and Sweet Sounds has become so popular Broad Street and North Avenue; Les ing Intermediate School Teacher for 2010 by the Optimist Club of Westfield. Mr. songbook. Formed in 1990, Tramps Community Renewal at (908) 558- that we have to turn away many tal- Jumelles Jazz, Elm Street; Sandy Mack Altmann is in his seventh year as a Public Speaking and Drama teacher at EIS. Denis McMorrow, representing Roosevelt Intermediate School (RIS), received Like Us doesn’t just sound like the 4079 after 3 p.m., or visit ented groups.” Band, North Avenue. the Outstanding Intermediate School Teacher award for 2010 from the Optimist Boss – they are the next best thing to www.ucnj.org/parks/ The Sweet Sounds Downtown Jazz Tuesday, August 31: Pam Purvis and Club of Westfield. Mr. McMorrow, a Language Arts teacher, is in his 16th year the Boss himself. They capture the summerarts.html. Festival schedule of performers is as the Blues Skies Band, Central Avenue; of service to the students of RIS. classic Springsteen sound and remain follows: Pat Cuttitta Quintet, East Broad Street true to the spirit and energy of the WF Author Goes From Tuesday, July 6: The Full Count Big and North Avenue; Dave Leonhardt Selected as one of the 2010 award education from Seton Hall and later music. The group delivers strong, Band, Central Avenue; Karl Latham Trio, Elm Street; Grupo Yuri, North recipients, Mr. Altmann is in his sev- earned a master’s degree in educa- convincing, road-tested performances Prison to Promised Land Group, East Broad Street and North Avenue. enth year as a public speaking and tional administration from Rutgers with exceptional talent. WESTFIELD – Westfield author Avenue; Karen Rodriguez Latin Jazz For more information about drama teacher at Edison Intermedi- University. The Union County information van Veronika Jordan will sign her book Ensemble, Elm Street; Filthy Rich and Westfield and other downtown events ate School in Westfield. His teaching A student of Mr. McMorrow’s will be at the concert site with staff to on Saturday, June 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. the Poor Boys, North Avenue; taking place, call the DWC at (908) experience spans 15 years in New wrote, “Mr. McMorrow encourages answer questions and offer informa- at Borders Express, located at 276 Tuesday, July 13: David Aaron Quin- 789-9444 for a free Destination Jersey public schools. us to think out of the box…He gets us tion about programs and recreational Woodbridge Center in Woodbridge. tet, Central Avenue; Michael Packer Westfield brochure, including a shop- Prior to his career in education, Mr. involved in class, and we have really activities that are available to Union Ms. Jordan will sign copies of her Blues Band, East Broad Street and ping, dining and service directory, as Altmann was a casting director for in-depth debates, amusing activities County residents. autobiography, “You Have the Right North Avenue; Carrie Jackson, Elm well as an events calendar or visit Disney. He holds a Bachelor of Arts for boring grammar, and helpful writ- The Summer Arts Festival con- to Remain Silent: From Prison to the Street; Mike Kaplan Nonet, North Av- WestfieldToday.com for further details. degree in Communications and The- ing/grammar tips. Every day, I look certs continue throughout July and Promised Land.” ater from Kean University. He also forward to language arts.” August on Wednesdays beginning at The book tells of 40-year-old earned a degree in education at Kean Another student added, “Mr. 7:30 p.m. The first four of this Veronika, who seemed to have it all – ‘Family Flix’ Begins 6/29 as well as a supervisory certificate. McMorrow is a motivating teacher. summer’s concerts will be held at a home in Los Angeles with her hus- In commenting on the Optimist He grades fairly, challenges me when Echo Lake Park on the Mountainside- band and two sons, a nursing job she Award, he said, “I am truly humbled appropriate and is always positive. Westfield border and the remaining loved, and the things she had always With Showing of Beethoven by this award. It is an amazing acco- He shows kids that they are more five concerts will be held at Oak wanted. Soon, her life was spiraling COUNTY – The Union County outdoor movies are: lade that I will always cherish.” capable of their abilities than they Ridge Park in Clark. Lawn chairs, out of control, and she found herself Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Tuesday, July 6, at Warinanco Park: Letters of nomination from Mr. think they are. He is awesome to be blankets and picnic baskets are en- in the one place she never expected to Department of Parks and Community USA Soccer players will demonstrate Altmann’s students include appre- around, and I am so lucky to be in his couraged. Refreshments and snacks be – prison. Renewal announced the summer sched- their soccer skills and hold a shoot-out ciation for his enthusiasm and en- class.” will be available from vendors. Two years later, when released, ule of “Family Flix” – the film series before the screening of The Little Ras- couragement. One student explained “The fact that many students had The other free concerts in the Union she finds her world is still upside- that gives families a chance to catch a cals. that after taking Mr. Altmann’s class, input on my nomination for this award County Summer Arts Festival series down. She turns to the bottle to soothe movie under the stars in a Union County Tuesday, July 13, at Warinanco Park: “I was able to talk in front of people is particularly satisfying because as a include: July 7 – The Machine Per- away her pain and soon ends up on park. a display presented by the Union County without it being so scary.” teacher, you work hard to have a forms Pink Floyd at Echo Lake Park; the same path as her husband – that of “Family Flix begin at dusk, but come 4-H Small Animals Club will be fol- A parent of a former student wrote positive influence on your students July 14 – Bob Marley Tribute Show an alcoholic. early to the park to enjoy interesting lowed by the animated feature film, about the life-long skills her son and hopefully make an impact on at Echo Lake Park; July 21 – Taboo Unlike her husband, she finally preview activities at 7:15 p.m. that are The Tale of Despereaux. achieved while being in Mr. them both academically and socially,” (Santana tribute band) at Echo Lake turns to Alcoholics Anonymous and fun for the whole family,” said Free- Tuesday, July 27, at Meisel Park in Altmann’s class and also added, “He said Mr. McMorrow. “To know that Park; July 28 – Strawberry Fields God for help. Just as she is beginning holder Vice-Chairman Deborah Springfield: enjoy making paper-bag is someone who encourages you to has happened is personally reward- (Beatles tribute band) at Oak Ridge to feel confident and on track again, Scanlon, liaison to the Parks and Rec- hand puppet before watching The not only do your best, but challenges ing and motivates me even more,” he Park in Clark; August 4 – Doctor K’s a family tragedy takes her back to her reation Advisory Board. Muppet Movie. you to grow as a person, whether it is added. Motown Review; at Oak Ridge Park; past, where she realizes she has more “Bring a blanket or beach chair to Tuesday, August 3, at Meisel Park: August 11 – The Rat Pack (music of to face than alcohol addiction. claim your spot on the lawn or save a singers from The Mystic Vision Play- seat in the bleachers; either way, the ers community theatre company of Lin- Westfield Brothers Receive early birds are sure to like the preview den will entertain the audience before activity before each movie,” she said. Shrek 2. Education News The opening film this summer will Tuesday, August 17, at Nomahegan Awards and Scholarships be the 1992 comedy/drama, Beethoven, Park in Cranford: Trailside naturalists WESTFIELD – Twin brothers, Jus- position. He performed this work, Sum- starring Bonnie Hunt, Charles Grodin will lead a dusk stroll in the park to see tin and Michael Rosin, both seniors at mer Piece # 1, at the MEA Awards and Dean Jones. Beethoven is an ador- if evening noises are monsters and aliens Westfield High Recital. able puppy that escapes from or simply bullfrogs and katydids, be- School, recently re- Michael also re- dognappers – and a beastly veterinar- fore the showing of Monsters vs. Aliens. ceived a number of ceived the ian – to grow into a giant St. Bernard Tuesday, August 24 at Nomahegan awards and schol- Westfield Musical and the center of attention for an unsus- Park: Watchung Stable staff members arships from vari- Club Scholarship pecting family. will guide lead-line rides on horses for ous organizations. for achievement as Beethoven will be shown outdoors, youngsters before the adventure com- In February, Jus- a composer and free of charge at Warinanco Park on the edy, Racing Stripes. tin was awarded the was awarded the border of Roselle and Elizabeth on All movies start at dusk in nice Marc Hardy Hu- Madeline Wild- Tuesday, June 29. The Union County weather only. For more information, man Rights Award Bristol Scholarship 4-H Club will demonstrate the skills of call the Union County Department of by the First Congre- from the Westfield seeing-eye dogs at 7:15 p.m., before Parks and Community Renewal at (908) gational Church of High School Fine the movie. 527-4900. For rain information in the Westfield for his ac- Arts Department. The other dates for Family Flix free parks, call (908) 558-4079 after 3 p.m. tive participation in This scholarship is humanitarian ef- given to an art, the- forts both at ater or music stu- Westfield Community Band Westfield High dent who demon- School and at the strates continuous Presbyterian achievement in the BATTLE ON…Fifth graders from Washington Elementary School battled it out Honors Independence Day Church of arts for all four in the “Battle of the Books.” Librarian Susan Heyder grouped the fifth graders WESTFIELD – Thomas Connors will continue its season on Thursdays, into teams in which they worked together cooperatively to read 16 different titles Westfield. years of high over three months. The winning team from each class (with the most books read) and The Westfield Community Con- July 8 and 15, followed by the Westfield He was also Justin Rosin school. met for the finale, answering questions in a game-show format about the books. cert Band will join the Sons and Daugh- Community Swing Band “Nostalgia” awarded a scholar- Michael also re- “The Battle” provided an opportunity for students to explore different types of ters of the American Revolution to on July 22. The concert will be held in ship from the Rotary Club for achieve- ceived scholarships from both the Par- literature. Pictured, left to right, are: Alaina Brotman, Chris Hoernner, Catherine present the annual town-wide Inde- Mindowaskin Park, located next to ment, leadership and humanitarian ent-Teacher Council and the College Li, Alex Pansini, fifth-grade teacher Susan McClelland, Alisha Asiga, Max Cerra pendence Day Celebration on Thurs- the Westfield Municipal Building at work; and also re- Men’s Club of and Chloe Schaffer. day, July 1, at 7:30 p.m. in 425 East Broad Street in Westfield. ceived the Melvyn Westfield. The Col- Mindowaskin Park. The event is free to the public; audi- L. Coren Award for lege Men’s Club WF’s Erickson to Attend Summer Academy The concert is part of the Westfield ence members are encouraged to bring Academic honor is referred to WESTFIELD – Justin Erickson of National Honor Society. Community Band’s Historic 98th blankets or chairs. In the event of Achievement and as the Keith Hertell Westfield High School has been ac- Vanderbilt University’s PTY seeks Summer Concert Series. The evening inclement weather, the concert will be Public Charity from III Award for Per- cepted to attend the 2010 Vanderbilt to identify and aid academically tal- will include a traditional and popular held in the Westfield Community the College Men’s forming Arts. In Summer Academy (VSA), a program ented youth from diverse educational, works from American history. A fea- Room in the Westfield Municipal Club of Westfield. addition, the for gifted students in grades 8 through racial and economic backgrounds by tured work for the evening will be Building. Justin received Harmonium Choral 12 hosted by Vanderbilt University’s providing academic enrichment and Richard Rodger’s and Oscar The Westfield Community Concert the Lisa K. Society awarded Program’s for Talented Youth (PTY). challenge, balance and healthfulness Hammerstein’s Oklahoma. Band is sponsored by the Westfield Monteleone Teach- him second place Students who attend VSA are in their lives. The first musical written by this Recreation Department. For further ing Scholarship for for an original cho- among the brightest in the country, renowned team tells the story of a information, contact (908) 789-4080 his ability to reach ral composition. scoring in the top tier on academic WF’s Sarah Round cowboy, Curly, and his romance with or visit westfieldcommunityband.com. out to others and to In May, he con- achievement tests such as the SAT farm girl Laurey. The original Broad- effectively and per- ducted the pre-con- and ACT. Becomes Veterinarian way production opened in 1943 and Summer Kick-off Party suasively commu- cert lecture for the “VSA classes develop students’ WESTFIELD – Sarah Round has was adapted into an Academy Award- nicate beliefs and Westfield Sym- critical thinking skills, encourage in- been awarded the Doctor of Veteri- winning film in 1955. In LaGrande Park ideas to support a phony Orchestra’s tellectual exploration, and teach them nary Medicine degree from Michi- This arrangement includes well- FANWOOD — The Fanwood Rec- worthy cause. In ad- performance of how to thrive in a college classroom gan State University’s College of known favorites such as “Oh, What a reation Commission will hold dition, Justin re- Beethoven’s Ninth setting,” said PTY Director Tamra Veterinary Medicine. She received Beautiful Mornin’,” “The Surrey with Fanwood’s fourth annual Party in the ceived a scholar- Symphony and pre- Stambaugh. “Students are able to push the degree during commencement and The Fringe on Top” and “People Will Park at LaGrande Park on Tuesday, ship from the Par- sented a longer ver- their intellectual limits alongside hooding ceremonies on campus May Say We’re in Love.” June 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ent-Teacher Coun- Michael Rosin sion of the lecture friends who also appreciate the sheer 7. Additional selections for this per- (raindate is Wednesday, June 30). cil and a merit to Franklin School joy of learning and discovery.” Sarah is the daughter of Phil and formance include: “American Civil Food, music, and beverages will be scholarship from Ithaca College, where fifth graders. VSA consists of one-week, two- Elizabeth Round of Westfield and is War Fantasy” by Herry Bilik, “Ride” available as well as rides for kids, he will attend in the fall. These scholar- This month the Westfield High week and three-week sessions, each a 2002 graduate of Westfield High by Samuel R. Hazo, “Porgy and Bess” crafts and other amusements, and a ships were awarded based on leader- School Concert Choir performed his featuring challenging courses taught School. by George Gershwin and more. scavenger hunt (for the first 70 en- ship characteristics, philanthropic ac- first place choral work, Sapientia Pacis in university classrooms and labora- She received the Small Animal The intermission of the program trants who show up; bring a bag or tivities and academics. (The Wisdom of Peace), at the choral tories by Vanderbilt scholars. Surgery Award at the Senior Banquet will highlight Westfield’s town crier, small basket) inspired by the free In March, Michael was awarded first concert where he conducted. Michael Justin will attend a three-week ses- on May 6. Sarah will begin a small sharing local news stories with the movie of the evening, The Fantastic place in the Composition Contest of the will attend the John J. Cali School of sion in Engineering. He is a member animal rotating internship at Garden concert attendees and an Independence Mr. Fox, which will begin at dusk. New Jersey Music Educators Associa- Music at Montclair State in the fall as a of the Westfield Chapter of the Na- State Veterinary Hospital in Tinton Day address. Small fees will be charged for rides tion (MEA) for an original piano com- music-composition major. tional Honor Society and the Spanish Falls this June. The Westfield Community Band and some food items. Page 18 Thursday, June 24, 2010 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION

Photography by Tom Fortunato for The Westfield Leader and The Times BATTLEFIELD SPFHS...Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School (SPFHS) held its final Battle of the Bands for the 2009-2010 school year on Friday, June 11. The following high schoolers took part in the event. They are, clockwise from top left, SPFHS juniors Chris Gilman and Cassie Caminiti; Space Jams performing "Everywhere" by Michelle Branch; Triangle Lord (aka TriLord) delivering a live rave-like performance-art piece; and Hudson Sound Performer’s Chris Fortunato, a senior.

Ladybug Story from Westfield, Iowa, Travels East, Reaches Westfield, N.J. By MARYLOU MORANO was in the hospital a great deal,” said the world,” said Ms. Hopkins. Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times Mrs. Hopkins. Both Mrs. Hopkins and her husband, WESTFIELD – “The LadyBug “One day, she spied a ladybug and Bruce, who is also an author, are strong WHS Graduate Wins ‘Best Waltz,” a song Jeannette Hopkins com- smiled…after a few seconds, my imagi- advocates of writing to document exposed and sung to her granddaughter, nation kicked in, perience, and both Chloe, each evening to help her through and I saw ladybugs believe that the pro- open-heart surgery is now a delightful dancing...twirling, cess of writing Comedy’ Award at USC Moviefest picture book replete with full-color whirling...playing should be taught as By RENNIE WOLTERS Directed and co-written by Mr. ship at a young production company illustrations of ladybugs swirling and the cutest little la- early as kindergar- Specially For The Westfield Leader and The Times Eisenberg, and presented as a horror in Los Angeles, Chernin Entertain- twirling to a catchy rhyme. dybug instru- ten. WESTFIELD – Will Eisenberg, a comedy, Commitment tells the story ment, and said he is already taking the Ms. Hopkins – a semi-retired edu- ments.” This past school 2008 Westfield High School graduate, of a carefree college student who next step in his career with another cator who had taught in the Westfield, The words and year, they shared has traveled across the country to pur- knowingly involves himself with a co- short movie he intends to showcase in Iowa, school district – does have ties music to “The this vision with sue film production, and he has trav- ed who ultimately will seek commit- a professional-quality film festival this to the Westfield, N.J., community. LadyBug Waltz” Franklin and eled up the charts in popularity for his ment. The hilarity of the skit earned summer. Her niece, Jane Clancy, is on the are included in the Tamaques Schools, creative movies at the University of nominations for not only best com- Reaching out to friends, family and Westfield Board of Education, and book. and plan to return Southern California (USC) in the heart edy, but also best picture and audience corporate sponsors, Mr. Eisenberg’s her sister, Paula Horii, and her hus- The National to Westfield to visit of Los Angeles. favorite. latest comedy is registered at band, Howard, are town residents. Writing Project other schools this Mr. Eisenberg and his team of fel- “It’s surprising for anything to come kickstarter.com, a fundraising website Chloe has undergone five open- (NWP), a nonprofit upcoming fall. low USC students accepted a nomina- heart surgeries and is doing well. She educational organization that supports More information about Ms. tion for Best Picture and won the Best has just finished kindergarten at educators’ efforts to improve writing in Hopkins, along with news about pur- Comedy Award at the USC-hosted Bryant Elementary School in Sioux the nation’s schools, recently recog- chasing a CD, can be found on Campus Moviefest (CMF) event. City, Iowa, where the Hopkins fam- nized “The LadyBug Waltz.” jeannettehopkins.com. The book is The world’s largest student-film fes- ily now resides. “For me, the NWP acknowledgement available at The Town Book Store in tival, CMF has taken on an average of “During the first year of her life, she was big, as it reaches educators across Westfield. 75,000 student participants this year across the country and the world, and has offered $400,000 in prizes thanks to corporate and college sponsorships. Originally created by four Emory University students in 2002, the Cam- pus Moviefest provides Apple laptops, camcorders, AT&T phones and free training seminars for all participants from more than 50 colleges and universities. Each student team is given one week to create a five-minute short movie With a with an independent soundtrack to be entered into each individual school’s red carpet finale showcase. The best PPark AvenueF lair... movies of the campus festivals move onto regional finals and then onto the CMF International Grand Finale event, TO THE VICTORS...Westfield High School graduate Will Eisenberg, left, stands Winterhill offers an impressive selection of this year held at the Wynn Las Vegas. alongside Marielle Membreno, Eric Fleischman and Rahim Spencer, right, at the International Campus Moviefest in Las Vegas. The group is huddling around The antiques and collectibles from furniture to Winners of the grand-finale event travel to the Cannes Film Festival in Golden Tripod, which Marielle won for Best Actress for her role in Commitment. fine jewelry. We buy and sell antiques as France, where their movies are show- Eric co-wrote and starred in the film, and Rahim served as boom operator. well as conduct estate sales. Look for the cased at the Short Film Corner. out of one week’s worth of work,” Mr. for creative projects. The team seeks As award-winners at the USC view- Eisenberg said. “So, we’re all enjoy- to raise $6,000. Thus far, they have blue awnings on Park Avenue and come ing, Mr. Eisenberg and his team of ing the ride.” raised $3,500 and must reach their find a bit of shopping heaven. moviemakers graduated on to the Although nominated in many cat- goal by July 9 or risk losing all of their Western Regional Finale in San Fran- egories, only the team’s lead actress, sponsorship. cisco, placing in the top 16 best mov- USC junior and theatre student The project, The Perfect Hurl, fea- f # # ies for the region, earning a spot at the Marielle Membreno, took home an tures a 14-year-old suburban high # # 20% OFF national grand finale screening and award for Best Actress in the finale school student seeking to rebel. The # receiving the prestige of being chosen showcase. character finds freedom in hurling # # One Item as a featured film on Virgin America “We didn’t do it to win awards,” Mr. yogurt at cars with a fellow rebellious excluding already flights. Eisenberg said. “We did it because we friend. Winterhill “In terms of a student-level film, it’s enjoy making films, and we thought it “It’s a little inspired by Westfield,” discounted items doing as well as it could be doing,” was a challenge, so anything that’s Mr. Eisenberg said. “By far, it’s the Limit one per customer Antiques WL said Mr. Eisenberg, who described the happened since then is icing on the biggest thing I’ve done. It’s a really experience as a stepping-stone in his cake.” exciting time and an exciting place to # career. Mr. Eisenberg has landed an intern- be.” 908 322-2553 # See it all on the web in color . . . www.goleader.com Tuesdays July & August 7 pm – 9 pm Raindate Wednesdays July Performances August Performances The Full Count Big Band Central Ave. Jazz Lobsters Central Ave. www.fullcountbigband.com www.jazzlobsters.com Karl Latham Group E. Broad St. & North Ave. Justin Derman Jazz Trio E. Broad St. & North Ave. www.karllatham.com www.justindermanmusic.com Karen Rodriguez Latin Jazz Ensemble Elm St. La Balteuband Elm St.

JULY 6 JULY www.myspace.com/karenrodriguezlatinjazzensemble www.emilioteubal.com

Filthy Rich and the Poor Boys North Ave. 3 AUGUST Scarlett Lee Moore North Ave. www.filthyrich.cc/ www.slmband.com David Aaron Quintet Central Ave. Dr. Dubious and the Agnostics Central Ave. www.partypop.com/Vendors/3046926.htm www.doctordubious.com Michael Packer Blues Band E. Broad St. & North Ave. Too Blue Lou and the Groove E. Broad St. & North Ave. www.michaelpackerbluesband.com www.toobluelouandthegroove.com Carrie Jackson Elm St. Lauren Shub Trio Elm St. www.cjayrecords.com www.laurenshub.com JULY 13 JULY Mike Kaplan Nonet North Ave. Radam Schwartz North Ave.

www.mikekaplannonet.com 10 AUGUST www.radamschwartzjazz.com Taino Central Ave. Nicole Hart Central Ave. www.joetaino.com www.nicolehart.com B.D. Lenz E. Broad St. & North Ave. Eric Mintel Quartet E. Broad St. & North Ave. www.bdlenz.com www.ericmintelquartet.com Patty Cronheim Ensemble Elm St. Bradford Hayes Elm St. www.pattycronheim.com www.bradfordhayes.com JULY 20 JULY Chris Colaneri Quintet North Ave. Roxy Perry North Ave. http://www.ccmallets.com 17 AUGUST www.roxyperry.com Marlene VerPlanck Central Ave. Jimmy Jazz Central Ave. www.marleneverplanck.com www.cdbaby.com/cd/JimmieJazz Glenn Alexander Trio E. Broad St. & North Ave. Jerry Topinka E. Broad St. & North Ave. www.glennalexander.com www.jerrytopinka.com Gordon James Elm St. Les Jumelles Jazz Elm St. www.gjames.com www.jumellesjazz.com JULY 27 JULY Richard Reiter Swing Band North Ave. Sandy Mack Band North Ave.

www.richardreiter.com/swing 24 AUGUST www.myspace.com/sandymackband Pam Purvis and The Blues Skies Band Central Ave. Presented by the Downtown Westfield Corporation www.pampurvis.com 105 Elm Street • Westfield, NJ 07090 • 908.789.9444 Pat Cuttitta Quintet E. Broad St. & North Ave. www.WestfieldToday.com http://www.myspace.com/patcuttitta The Management Entity of the Special lmprovement District Dave Leonhardt Trio Elm St. Photography: Cheri Rogowsky www.davidjazz.com Grupo Yuri North Ave.

AUGUST 31 AUGUST www.grupoyuri.com Sweet Sounds Downtown Jazz

Enjoy the Jazz Festival and Visit Downtown Westfield’s Many Retailers!

ANTIQUES Verizon Wireless Crumb’s Bake Shop Fancy Nails Betty Gallagher Antiques * 109 North Ave. W., 789-1201 . . . . . N1 130 E. Broad St., 232-5527 ...... A1 331 W. Broad St., 654-9581 ...... S2 266 E. Broad St., 654-4222 ...... H1 Westfield Kitchen & Bath Tom & Jerry’s Tutti Baci Café Figaro's Hair Styling * Golden Bee 305 South Ave. W., 232-3500 . . . . . V1 401 South Ave. W., 317-9200 . . . . . U1 405 Westfield Ave., 232-8239 . . . . . U2 141A E. Broad St., 654-6824 . . . . . E3 Williams-Sonoma BARBER SHOPS/BEAUTY/ Guillotine Salon & Spa House of Legacies 127 Central Ave., 301-0075 ...... H4 COSMETICS 108 Central Ave., 654-8686 ...... B2 53 Elm St., 518-1700 ...... A2 ART/FRAMING/GALLERIES A Face Forever, LLC Jerzey Cutz APPLIANCES/CELLULAR/ Evalyn Dunn's Gallery * 227 Elmer St., 732-715-7391 ...... K3 229 South Ave. W., 654-4343 . . . . .W1 ELECTRONICS 549 South Ave. W., 232-0412 . . . . . S1 Anthony Michael Salon * Maria Candida's Hair Forum * AT&T Galeria West Art & Framing 224 E. Broad St., 232-2329 ...... B1 105 Prospect St., 233-3460 ...... D1 200 Central Ave., 301-1590 ...... J5 111 Quimby St., 301-9217 ...... C1 The Bath Junkie Martin Richard Salon The Eardly J. Petersen Company * Juxtapose Gallery * 221 North Ave. E., 264-8633 ...... J3 112 Elm St., 654-4849 ...... F1 224 Elmer St., 232-5723 ...... J2 58 Elm St., 232-3278 ...... B4 Bluemercury Michaelangelo 82 Elm St., 233-1100 ...... B4 101 Prospect St., 233-1049 ...... D1 Elm Radio, TV & Major Appliances* BAKERIES Mr. J. Hairstylist * 220 Elmer St., 233-0400 ...... J2 Ana Beall’s Tea Room Choice Hair Design * 607 South Ave. W., 232-8879 . . . . . Y1 Verizon FiOS 415 Westfield Ave., 264-4221 . . . . .U2 205 South Ave. W., 232-0080 . . . . W1 The Nail Station 241 North Ave. W., 317-6913 . . . . . N1 Bovella's Pastry Shoppe * Designer Fragrances & Cosmetic 419 South Ave. W., 233-5097 . . . . . U1 101 E. Broad St., 232-4149 ...... E3 Company 132 E. Broad St., 389-1719 ...... A1 Salon Visage Bittersweet Designs FLORISTS New Jersey Table Tennis Club * 240-44 North Ave. W., 233-2726 . . C3 212 Lenox Ave., 389-0330 ...... J1 The Flower Zone 226 North Ave. W., 232-9659 . . . . . C3 Serenity Nails & Spa Chico's 103 Prospect St., 654-8837 ...... D1 Revive Therapeutic Massage 211-215 South Ave. W., 654-5757 . W1 76 Elm St., 301-1737 ...... B4 The Green Room 66 Elm St., 512-0922 ...... B4 Skin Savvy The Children's Place 21 Elm St., 518-0400 ...... A2 Rowdell’s Fitness 100 Quimby St., #4, 301-1500 . . . . B3 177 E. Broad St., 789-7542 ...... E3 Meeker's Florists * 215 North Ave. W., 233-9198 . . . . . N1 Supercuts Claire's 427 South Ave. W., 232-8740 . . . . . U1 Satsang Yoga Studio 270 North Ave. E., 654-0440 . . . . . O2 141 E. Broad St., 317-9157 ...... E3 FOOD SERVICES 307 South Ave. W., 789-7203 . . . . .V1 Towne Barber Shoppe Coach Alan’s Orchards Unity Yoga 29 Elm St., 233-5775 ...... A2 249 E. Broad St., 654-5047 ...... F2 102 Quimby St...... B3 (at First Congregational Church) 125 Elmer St., 233-9697 ...... I3 VP Salon Coldwater Creek Omaha Steaks 210 South Ave. W., 928-1133 . . . . . R1 126 Central Ave., 233-2873 ...... C2 131 E. Broad St., 654-0055 . . . . . E3 Westfield Fitness Studio LLC 241 North Ave. W., 232-0148 . . . . . N1 Westfield Laser Skin Care Center The Couture Exchange Westfield Seafood * 209 Central Ave., 228-2769 ...... H4 33 Elm St., 232-0071 ...... A2 220 South Ave. W., 233-3042 . . . . . R2 Westfield Tanning 221 Lenox Ave., 233-8020 ...... H3 BIRTHDAY PARTIES Eileen Fisher 9 Elm St., 233-7133 ...... A2 FORMAL WEAR Westfield Yoga and Pilates Ana Beall’s Tea Room Felice * Esprit 231 Elmer St., 232-1355 ...... K3 415 Westfield Ave., 264-4221 . . . . . U2 266 E. Broad St., 233-1474 ...... H1 151 E. Broad St., 233-7878 ...... E3 HEARING AIDS The Bath Junkie Lord & Taylor * Felice * 221 North Ave. E., 264-8633 ...... J3 609 North Ave. W., 233-6600 ...... L B. Kubick Opticians & 266 E. Broad St., 233-1474 ...... H1 Hearing Aid Center * Crumbs Bake Shop Mademoiselle * Francolino Clothier * 110 Central Ave., 233-5512 ...... B2 130 E. Broad St., 232-5527 ...... A1 107 E. Broad St., 233-0763 ...... E3 129 Elm St., 233-1273 ...... E2 Just Bead Yourself Tuxedos by Cozy HOME FURNISHINGS/DESIGN Funk & Standard Variety Store 113 Central Ave., BEAD-411 . . . . . H4 222A North Ave. W., 301-0040 . . . .C3 The Farmhouse Store Rialto Theatre * 111 Central Ave., 654-8707 ...... H4 221 North Ave. E., 654-0444 ...... J3 GIFTS 250 E. Broad St., 232-1288 ...... H1 Gap Huggins Flooring 207 E. Broad St., 654-8260 ...... F2 The Bath Junkie BOOKS 406 W. Broad St., 232-6600 ...... Y2 Gap Kids 221 North Ave. E., 264-8633 ...... J3 The Town Book Store * Jennifer Watty Interior Architecture 234 E. Broad St., 233-2723 ...... B1 Bittersweet Designs 220 Lenox Ave., 233-8128 ...... J1 270 E. Broad St., 233-3535 ...... F2 212 Lenox Ave., 389-0330 ...... J1 The Hope Chest Thrift Shop Kitchen & Bath Renovations CANDY/COFFEE 26 Prospect St., 233-9973 ...... A4 The Farmhouse Store 501 South Ave. W., 228-2605 . . . . .T1 Ahrre's Coffee Roastery Janie and Jack 221 E. Broad St., 654-0444 ...... F2 104 Elm St., 232-7977 ...... F1 Madeline Moss 200 E. Broad St., 232-3721 ...... B1 Funk and Standard 258 E. Broad St., 228-2284 . . . . . H1 Brummer’s Chocolates * John Robert of Westfield * 111 Central Ave., 654-8707 ...... H4 125 E. Broad St., 232-1904 ...... E3 The Pfaffenbach Collection 31 E. Broad St., 232-9511 ...... D2 Inspire 225 Elmer St., 232-6636 ...... K3 The Chocolate Bar Jos. A. Bank Clothier 431 South Ave. W., 232-2330 . . . . .U1 112 Quimby St., 389-9000 ...... B3 Poppyfields Home 121 Quimby St., 928-9363 ...... C1 J. Winthrop & Company 200 E. Broad St., Fl. 2, 518-9495 . . B1 Crumbs Bake Shop Lord & Taylor * 233 North Ave. E., 232-8199 ...... J3 130 E. Broad St., 232-5527 ...... A1 The Sherwin-Williams Company 609 North Ave. W., 233-6600 ...... L Just Bead Yourself 319 South Ave. W., 232-8180 . . . . . V1 Newstand at Westfield Train Station Lucky Brand Jeans 254 E. Broad St., BEAD-411 ...... H1 300 South Ave. W., 232-8193 . . . . .Q1 Westfield Kitchen & Bath 253 E. Broad St., 518-1794 ...... F2 O’ Ireland 305 South Ave. W., 232-3500 . . . . . V1 Rockn’ Joe Coffee House + Bistro Mademoiselle * 28 Prospect St., 654-3490 ...... A4 20 Prospect St., 232-1660 ...... A4 Westfield Sleep Center 107 E. Broad St., 233-0763 ...... E3 Presidential Pen & Gifts 125 Elm St., 232-8060 ...... E2 Starbucks Melinda Lane 112 Central Ave., 317-9600 ...... B2 117 Central Ave., 789-8424 ...... H4 Williams-Sonoma 208 Lenox Ave., 233-7033 ...... D2 Rhain Accessories & Gifts 127 Central Ave., 301-0075 ...... H4 Tom and Jerry Tutti Baci Café Menina 129 E. Broad St., 518-0700 ...... E3 401 South Ave. W., 317-9200 . . . . . U1 27 E. Broad St., 654-0358 ...... D2 Success Express HOTELS Westfield Tobacco & News 57 Elm St., 233-9909 ...... A2 Westfield Inn * Nirvana 435 North Ave. W., 654-5600 . . . . . M1 108 Elm St., 232-2224 ...... F1 218 E. Broad St., 232-5774 ...... B1 Williams-Sonoma CARD COLLECTIBLES/COMICS Rhain Accessories & Gifts 127 Central Ave., 301-0075 ...... H4 JEWELRY/WATCHES CJ's Extra Innings 129 E. Broad St., 518-0700 ...... E3 GREETING CARDS Adlers Jewelers * 400 W. Broad St., 232-8465 ...... Y2 Roman Boutique and Tailoring Baron’s Drug Store * 219 North Ave. W., 233-6900 . . . . .N1 The Farmhouse Store CLEANERS/TAILORS 106 Elm St., 654-1658 ...... F1 243 E. Broad St., 232-6680 ...... F2 221 E. Broad St., 654-0444 ...... F2 Continental Tailoring * Sadie CVS/pharmacy 307 South Ave. W., 232-2320 . . . . . V1 107 Prospect St., 654-3800 ...... D1 210 South Ave. W., 654-8333 . . . . . R1 Gordin & Sons Jewelers * 135 E. Broad St., 232-0736 ...... E3 Flair Cleaners * Sole Walgreens 401 Boulevard, 232-8944 ...... W1 201 E. Broad St., 654-7800 ...... F2 260 North Ave. E., 232-5100 . . . . . O1 J. Winthrop & Company * 233 North Ave. E., 232-8199 ...... J3 G. O. Keller's Inc. * Splash Boutique Papyrus 11 E. Broad St., 233-4381 ...... D2 15 E. Broad St., 228-2381 ...... D2 62 Elm St., 928-1300 ...... B4 Just Bead Yourself 113 Central Ave., BEAD-411 ...... H4 Pan American Cleaners * Talbots Stop & Shop 501 South Ave. W., 232-7430 . . . . . T1 217 North Ave. W., 232-4434 . . . . . N2 219-233 Elm St., 232-1292 ...... E2 Michael Kohn Jewelers * 226 North Ave. W., 233-8811 . . . . . C3 Price Less Cleaners Tuxedos by Cozy GROCERY STORES 210 South Ave. W., 233-0080 . . . . . R1 222A North Ave. W., 301-0040 . . . .C3 Rhain Accessories & Gifts Alan’s Orchards 129 E. Broad St., 518-0700 ...... E3 Rocky the Tailor * Victoria's Secret 102 Quimby St...... B3 433 South Ave. W., 232-7141 . . . . . U1 233 E. Broad St., 518-0859 ...... F2 Robert Anthony Jewelry Stop & Shop 254 E. Broad St., 317-5800 ...... H1 Roman Boutique and Tailoring Westfield Service League 219-233 Elm St., 232-1292 ...... E2 Tamar Jewelry 106 Elm St., 654-1658 ...... F1 Consignment Shop * Trader Joe's 114 Elmer St., 233-2530 ...... H2 55 Elm St., 317-0180 ...... A2 South Ave. Cleaners & Alterations 155 Elm St., 301-0910 ...... E2 COPIES/PRINTING/OFFICE KNITTING 611 South Ave. W., 232-3688 . . . . . Y1 HEALTH/FITNESS/TANNING/ SUPPLIES Knit-A-Bit Starlight Cleaners MASSAGE 66 Elm St., 301-0053 ...... B4 274 North Ave. E., 232-7332 . . . . . O2 Gold Seal Office Products Dahn Yoga 431 South Ave. W., 241 North Ave. W., 301-9642 . . . . .N1 LUGGAGE CLOTHING/ACCESSORIES 800-946-5173 ...... U1 Anais Boutique E-Z Accupressure Massage American Shoe Repair & Luggage* 51 Elm St., 233-3777 ...... A2 Sir Speedy 204 Lenox Ave., 232-8833 ...... J1 126 E. Broad St., 232-9522 ...... A1 251 North Ave. W., 232-1001 . . . . . N2 Ann Taylor Jason Wang Medical Massage MATERNITY/INFANT WEAR 167 E. Broad St., 301-9701 ...... E3 Staples Copy & Print Shop Center 225 E. Broad St., 233-4201 ...... F2 Janie and Jack Anthology 37 Elm St., 233-7790 ...... A2 200 E. Broad St., 232-3721 ...... B1 The UPS Store 125 Quimby St., 233-8255 ...... C1 Massage Meridian for Wellness MUSIC/DANCE 231 North Ave. W., 654-8200 . . . . . N1 404 W. Broad St., 301-1733 ...... Y2 Banana Republic 15th New Jersey Field Music 137 Central Ave., 301-1553 ...... H4 Natural Therapy of Westfield Company A 402 Blvd., 233-2110 ...... V1 224 E. Broad St., 230-6856 ...... B1 Golden Age Fretted Instruments Shampooch Whitehall Media Productions Treasure Cove Water Sports * 309 South Ave. W., 301-0001 . . . . . V1 205 South Ave. W., 233-4602 . . . . .W1 102 Elm St., 232-2182 ...... F1 407 South Ave. W., 654-8808 . . . . . U1 Kelly School of Irish Dance PHARMACIES SHIPPING/PACKAGING SPORTING MEMORABILIA 100 Elmer St., 301-0277 ...... H1 Baron's Drug Store * Baron’s Drug Store * CJ’s Extra Innings New Jersey Workshop for the Arts* 243 E. Broad St., 232-6680 ...... F2 243 E. Broad St., 232-6680 ...... F2 400 W. Broad St., 232-8465 ...... Y1 152 E. Broad St., 789-9696 ...... A1 CVS/pharmacy Staples Copy & Print Shop THEATER Sound Station 210 South Ave. W., 654-8333 . . . . . R1 225 E. Broad St., 233-4201 ...... F2 Rialto Theatre * 433 South Ave. W., 654-4110 . . . . . U1 Walgreens The UPS Store 250 E. Broad St., 232-1288 ...... H1 Westfield School of Dance 260 North Ave. E., 232-5100 . . . . . O1 231 North Ave. W., 654-8200 . . . . . N1 137 Central Ave., 789-3011 ...... H4 TICKET AGENCIES PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM/VIDEO SHOE REPAIR Westfield Symphony Orchestra * Big Apple Entertainment, Inc. Austin Photography & Video American Shoe Repair & Luggage* 224 E. Broad St., 232-9400 ...... B1 37 Elm St., 232-4004 ...... A2 406 W. Broad St., 232-1155 ...... Y2 126 E. Broad St., 232-9522 ...... A1 Boogies Tickets NEWSPAPER/NEWSSTANDS Curl Films The Cobbler's Bench 41 Elm St., 232-4000 ...... A2 Newstand at Westfield 224 E. Broad St., 612-5710 ...... B2 437 South Ave. W., 232-9472 . . . . . U1 TOYS/GAMES/HOBBIES Train Station * Dave Rossi Photography & Framing* SHOES Game Stop 300 South Ave. W., 232-8193 . . . . Q1 104 Quimby St., 232-8300 ...... B3 Aerosoles 121 E. Broad St., 233-5435 ...... E3 The Westfield Leader * The Fashion Bride 161 E. Broad St., 232-2963 ...... E3 Learning Express Toys 251 North Ave. W., 232-4407 . . . . . N2 102 Elm St., 232-2182 ...... F1 Castle Bootery, Inc. * 184 Elm St., 233-1381 ...... F1 Westfield Tobacco & News GreenHouse Recording Studio 52 Elm St., 233-7172 ...... B4 Thinka Dinka 108 Elm St., 232-2224 ...... F1 250 E. Broad St., 233-9985 ...... H1 The Couture Exchange 264 E. Broad St., 233-7600 ...... H1 OPTICIANS/OPHTHALMOLOGISTS MotoPhoto 33 Elm St., 232-0071 ...... A2 TRAVEL AGENTS B. Kubick Opticians & 251 North Ave. W., 654-7171 . . . . . N1 Randal’s Shoes * Brand Travel Service Inc. Hearing Aid Center * Nadine Raphael Studios 82 Elm St., 232-3680 ...... B4 110 Central Ave., 233-5512 ...... B2 204 Lenox Ave., 232-0900 ...... J1 102 Elm St., 232-2182 ...... F1 The Running Company Brunner Opticians * Professional Video Services LLC 123 Quimby St., 654-9900 ...... C1 WINE/LIQUOR 100 E. Broad St., 232-8182 . . . . . A1 225 Lenox Ave., 232-4664 ...... H3 Scott’s Shoes of Westfield * CoolVines I to Eye Richman Films 109 Quimby St., 233-5678 ...... C1 23 Elm St., 232-5050 ...... A2 214 E. Broad St., 389-0390 . . . . . B1 402 W. Broad St., 301-9600 ...... Y2 Sole The Liquor Basket ORGANIC MARKET Snapshots of Westfield 201 E. Broad St., 654-7800 ...... F2 115 Quimby St., 232-1900 ...... C1 Alan’s Orchards 222 E. Broad St., 389-1003 ...... B1 Trader Joe's SPORTING GOODS 102 Quimby St...... B3 Sonata Photo Arts 155 Elm St., 301-0910 ...... E2 Jay's Cycle Shop * 231 North Ave. W., #2, 228-2817 . . N1 PET SERVICES 227 North Ave. E., 232-3250 ...... J3 Westfield Wine & Liquor Speakeasy Effects LLC 276 North Ave. E., 232-1133 . . . . . O2 The Paw House of Westfield The Running Company 217 Elmer St., 232-8200 ...... K3 222 North Ave. W., 228-2557 . . . . . C3 123 Quimby St., 654-9900 ...... C1 * 25 Years or More in Business Listen to the “Sweet Sounds” while Dining at one of our Many Restaurants! AMERICAN Shogun Wok CATERING Jersey Mike’s Subs Bovella’s Pastry Shoppe* 25 Burgers 515 South Ave. W., 232-1188 T1 16 Prospect Wine Bar & Bistro 144 E. Broad St., 233-6002 A1 101 E. Broad St., 232-4149 E3 251 North Ave. W., N2 16 Prospect St., 232-7320 A4 BRUNCH Manhattan Bagel The Brick Oven Clyne & Murphy Catering Ana Beall’s Tea Room Clyne & Murphy Catering 210 South Ave. W., 654-0525 R1 117 Quimby St., 317-9500 C1 439 South Ave. W., 233-9733 U2 415 Westfield Ave., 264-4221 U2 439 South Ave. W., 233-9733 U2 Mario’s Italian Deli Cosimo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria* Five Guys Burgers and Fries Isabella’s American Bistro Cosimo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria* 339 South Ave. W., 654-1900 V1 118 E. Broad St., 654-8787 A1 21 E. Broad St., 232-2499 D2 39 Elm St., 233-8830 A2 118 E. Broad St., 654-8787 A1 Robert Treat Delicatessen* Ferraro's Pizzeria* Isabella’s American Bistro Rockn’ Joe Coffeehouse + Bistro Feast Catering and Café 113 Quimby St., 232-0925 C1 14 Elm St., 232-1101 C4 39 Elm St., 233-8830 A2 20 Prospect St., 232-1660 A4 27 Elm St., 654-0045 A2 Subway Ferraro's Restaurant* Jersey Mike’s Subs Turning Point...Coming Soon Ferraro's Restaurant* 311 South Ave. W., 654-7500 V1 8 Elm St., 232-1105 C4 144 E. Broad St., 233-6002 A1 137 Central Ave. H4 8 Elm St., 232-1105 C4 106 Quimby St., 232-4760 B3 Mario’s Italian Deli The Office Beer Bar and Grill Vicki's Diner* Hershey's Deli* Tom & Jerry’s Tutti Baci Café 339 South Ave. W., 654-1900 V1 411 North Ave. W., 232-1207 M1 110 E. Broad St., 233-6887 A1 221 South Ave. W., 233-0430 W1 401 South Ave. W., 317-9200 U1 Papa John’s Panera Bread Westfield Diner* James Ward Mansion Westfield Bagels and Cafe 219 South Ave. W., 232-7272 W1 143 E. Broad St., 626-0200 E3 309 North Ave. E., 233-5200 K2 169 E. Broad St., 389-0014 E3 615 South Ave. W., 232-8636 Y1 Theresa's Rockn’ Joe Coffeehouse + Bistro Jersey Mike’s Subs Xocolatz Restaurant & Grill FRENCH 47 Elm St., 233-9133 A2 20 Prospect St., 232-1660 A4 235 Elmer St., 232-3962 K3 144 E. Broad St., 233-6002 A1 Chez Catherine* Tom & Jerry’s Tutti Baci Café Sweet Waters Steak House Manhattan Bagel 431 North Ave. W., 654-4011 M1 401 South Ave. W., 317-9200 U1 43 Elm St., 317-2599 A2 CAFE 210 South Ave. W., 654-0525 R1 16 Prospect Wine Bar & Bistro MEXICAN Turning Point...Coming Soon Mario’s Italian Deli ICE CREAM/ 16 Prospect St., 232-7320 A4 Qdoba Mexican Grill 137 Central Ave. H4 339 South Ave. W., 654-1900 V1 FROZEN/DESSERT Ahrre's Coffee Roastery Bovella’s Pastry Shoppe* 70 Elm St., 301-0050 B4 Vicki's Diner* Robert Treat Delicatessen* 104 Elm St., 232-7977 F1 101 E. Broad St., 232-4149 E3 Tinga Taqueria 110 E. Broad St., 233-6887 A1 113 Quimby St., 232-0925 C1 Ana Beall’s Tea Room The Chocolate Bar 110 Central Ave., 301-0100 B2 Westfield Bagels and Cafe Subway 415 Westfield Ave., 264-4221 U2 112 Quimby St., 389-9000 B3 615 South Ave. W., 232-8636 Y1 311 South Ave. W., 654-7500 V1 SEAFOOD Bovella’s Pastry Shoppe* Cold Stone Creamery Limani Seafood Grill Westfield Diner* 106 Quimby St., 232-4760 B3 101 E. Broad St., 232-4149 E3 163 E. Broad St., 518-0044 E3 235 North Ave. W., 233-0052 N1 309 North Ave. E., 233-5200 K2 Westfield Seafood* Feast Catering and Café Crumbs Bake Shop Westfield Seafood* WindMill 220 South Ave. W., 233-3042 R2 27 Elm St., 654-0045 A2 130 E. Broad St., 232-5527 A1 220 South Ave. W., 233-3042 R2 256 E. Broad St., 233-2001 H1 Xocolatz Restaurant & Grill Rockn’ Joe Coffeehouse + Bistro 235 Elmer St., 232-3962 K3 I Can't Believe It's Yogurt SOUTHWESTERN ASIAN 20 Prospect St., 232-1660 A4 270 North Ave. E., 654-1414 O2 Mojave Grille Asian Fusion CONTINENTAL CUISINE Old TIme Ice Cream 35 Elm St., 233-7772 A2 114-116 Quimby St., 389-1888 C1 Signature Café (Lord & Taylor) 609 North Ave. W., 233-6600 L 16 Prospect Wine Bar & Bistro 140 E. Broad St., 233-6002 A1 Gabi’s Sushi & Noodles 16 Prospect St., 232-7320 A4 STEAK HOUSE Rita’s of Westfield 13 Elm St., 389-1189 A2 Starbucks Sweet Waters Steak House 117 Central Ave., 789-8424 H4 Jeffrey's of Westfield 107 Quimby St., 928-9280 B3 Hunan Wok III 114 Central Ave., 232-4517 B2 43 Elm St., 317-2599 A2 25 E. Broad St., 232-0011 D2 Tom & Jerry’s Tutti Baci Café ITALIAN 401 South Ave. W., 317-9200 U1 Xocolatz Restaurant & Grill TEA ROOM Jade Garden 235 Elmer St., 232-3962 K3 Acquaviva delle fonti Ana Beall’s Tea Room 229 North Ave. W., 232-3309 N1 Westfield Bagels and Cafe 115 Elm St., 301-0700 E2 415 Westfield Ave., 264-4221 U2 615 South Ave. W., 232-8636 Y1 DELICATESSEN Boulevard Bistro Nagoya THAI Xocolatz Restaurant & Grill Hershey's Deli* 301 South Ave. W., 264-8252 V1 278 North Ave. E., 389-1131 O2 221 South Ave. W., 233-0430 W1 Splash of Thai 235 Elmer St., 232-3962 K3 321 South Ave. W., 232-0402 V1